The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 45

But though none of his daughters were aware of the fact, the old emperor was a magician, and had laid his plans accordingly.

Who acts: none, old emperor, journey · What happens: be, lay, plan · To what, where: magician, plans

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (none, old emperor, journey), 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	_	22 laid	cc
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	8 aware	mark
3	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	8 aware	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 daughters	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 daughters	nmod:poss
6	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 none	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 aware	cop
8	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 laid	advcl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 fact	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fact	det
11	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 aware	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 aware	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 emperor	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 emperor	amod
15	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 magician	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 magician	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 magician	det
18	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 aware	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 laid	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 laid	cc
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 laid	aux
22	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 plans	nmod:poss
24	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 laid	obj
25	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	22 laid	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	none		of the fact; aware property	tree rules
2	is a	past	the old emperor	a magician		tree rules
3	lay	past · perfect		journey's plans	accordingly property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result
4	plan		journey			nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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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