The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 45
He was sitting on his throne, surrounded by the sons of the other emperors, who served him as pages.
Who acts: boy, other emperors · What happens: sit, surround, serve · To what, where: throne, boy
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, other emperors), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sitting | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sitting | aux |
| 3 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 throne | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 throne | nmod:poss |
| 6 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sitting | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 surrounded | punct |
| 8 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sitting | advcl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 sons | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sons | det |
| 11 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 emperors | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 emperors | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 emperors | amod |
| 15 | emperors | emperor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sons | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 served | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 served | nsubj |
| 18 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 emperors | acl:relcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 served | obj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 pages | case |
| 21 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 served | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | boy | boy's throne | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location | ||||
| 2 | surround | participle | boy not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | serve | past | the other emperors | boy | as pages | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Duration as page=Attribute |
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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