The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 8
But it was only the emperor going to hunt with his friends and attendants.
Who acts: army, emperor · What happens: be, go, hunt · To what, where: emperor
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (army, emperor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 emperor | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 emperor | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 emperor | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 emperor | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 emperor | det |
| 6 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 emperor | acl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 hunt | mark |
| 9 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 going | xcomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 friends | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 friends | nmod:poss |
| 12 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hunt | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 attendants | cc |
| 14 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 friends | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 emperor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | army | the emperor | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | the emperor not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hunt | to-infinitive | the emperor not said here | with emperor's friends and attendants | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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