The Violet Fairy Book, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan, sentence 10

So when the apprentice returned home, and the master inquired how he had got on with the emperor, the young man answered, ‘Oh, very well, and he says I am to shave him every day, and he has given me these twelve ducats’; but he said nothing about the goat’s ears of the emperor.

Who acts: apprentice, master, young man, man, I · What happens: return, inquire, get on, answer, say, shave · To what, where: man, me, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apprentice, master, young man, man), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 returned	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 returned	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 apprentice	det
4	apprentice	apprentice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 returned	nsubj
5	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 returned	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 inquired	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 inquired	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 master	det
10	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 inquired	nsubj
11	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 returned	conj
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 got	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 got	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 got	aux
15	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 inquired	ccomp
16	on	on	ADP	_	15 got	compound:prt
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 emperor	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 emperor	det
19	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 got	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 answered	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
22	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 answered	nsubj
24	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 got	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 well	punct
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 well	punct
27	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	30 well	discourse
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Oh	punct
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 well	advmod
30	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 answered	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 says	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 says	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 says	nsubj
34	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 returned	conj
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 shave	nsubj
36	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 shave	aux
37	to	to	PART	_	38 shave	mark
38	shave	shave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 says	ccomp
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 shave	obj
40	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	41 day	det
41	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 shave	obl:unmarked
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 given	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 given	cc
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 given	nsubj:pass
45	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 given	aux
46	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 shave	parataxis
47	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 given	iobj
48	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	50 ducats	det
49	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 ducats	nummod
50	ducats	ducat	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 given	obj
51	’	'	PUNCT	_	50 ducats	punct
52	;	;	PUNCT	_	55 said	punct
53	but	but	CCONJ	_	55 said	cc
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 said	nsubj
55	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 returned	conj
56	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	55 said	obj
57	about	about	ADP	_	61 ears	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 goat	det
59	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 ears	nmod:poss
60	’s	's	PART	_	59 goat	case
61	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 nothing	nmod
62	of	of	ADP	_	64 emperor	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 emperor	det
64	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 ears	nmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	the apprentice				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	inquire speech: other	past	the master					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get on	past · perfect	Master				with the emperor	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	answer speech: assert	past	the young man					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	present	man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	shave	present	I	man		day		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
7	give	present · perfect · passive		man	me			tree rules
8	say speech: assert	past	man	nothing			about the goat's ears of the emperor	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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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