The Violet Fairy Book, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan, sentence 11
From this time the apprentice went regularly up to the palace, receiving each morning twelve ducats in payment.
Who acts: apprentice · What happens: go, receive · To what, where: palace, twelve ducats, payment
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), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 apprentice | det |
| 5 | apprentice | apprentice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | regularly | regularly | ADV | _ | 8 up | advmod |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 receiving | punct |
| 13 | receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 went | advcl |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 morning | det |
| 15 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 receiving | obj |
| 16 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 ducats | nummod |
| 17 | ducats | ducat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 receiving | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 payment | case |
| 19 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ducats | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the apprentice | the palace | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | receive | gerund | the apprentice not said here | twelve ducats | payment | morning | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ducat=Theme in payment=Location |
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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