The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 39

Now the emperor was accustomed to have his lightest word obeyed, almost before it was uttered, and he hardly knew how to believe his ears.

Who acts: lightest word, emperor · What happens: accustom, have, obey, utter, know, believe · To what, where: emperor, lightest word, word, ears

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lightest word, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 emperor	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 emperor	det
3	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 accustomed	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 accustomed	aux:pass
5	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 have	mark
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 accustomed	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 word	nmod:poss
9	lightest	light	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 word	amod
10	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
11	obeyed	obey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 have	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 uttered	punct
13	almost	almost	ADV	_	17 uttered	advmod
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 uttered	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 uttered	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 uttered	aux:pass
17	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 accustomed	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 knew	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 knew	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 knew	nsubj
21	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	22 knew	advmod
22	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 accustomed	conj
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 believe	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 believe	mark
25	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 knew	xcomp
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 ears	nmod:poss
27	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 believe	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 accustomed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accustom	past · passive		the emperor		tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive		emperor's lightest word		tree rules
3	obey	participle	emperor's lightest word not said here			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	utter speech: other	past · passive		word	almost property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
5	know	past	emperor		hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	believe	to-infinitive	emperor not said here	emperor's ears		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Stimulus
7	word		emperor			nom word «communication 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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