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The Violet Fairy Book, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan, sentence 2

Every morning, when he was shaved, he asked if the man saw anything odd about him, and as each fresh barber always replied that the emperor had goat’s ears, he was at once ordered to be put to death.

Who acts: goat, man, fresh barber, emperor · What happens: shave, ask, see, reply, have, order · To what, where: goat, anything, ears, emperor · 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 (goat, man, fresh barber, 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

detobl:unmarkedpunctadvmodnsubjaux:passacl:relclpunctnsubjmarkdetnsubjccompobjamodcaseoblpunctccmarkdetamodnsubjadvmodparataxismarkdetnsubjccompnmod:posscaseobjpunctnsubjaux:passcaseoblparataxismarkaux:passxcompcaseoblpunctrootEveryDETmorningNOUN,PUNCTwhenADVhePRONwasAUXshavedVERB,PUNCThePRONaskedVERBifSCONJtheDETmanNOUNsawVERBanythingPRONoddADJaboutADPhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJasSCONJeachDETfreshADJbarberNOUNalwaysADVrepliedVERBthatSCONJtheDETemperorNOUNhadVERBgoatNOUN’sPARTearsNOUN,PUNCThePRONwasAUXatADPonceADVorderedVERBtoPARTbeAUXputVERBtoADPdeathNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1EveryeveryDETPronType=Tot2 morningdet
2morningmorningNOUNNumber=Sing10 askedobl:unmarked
3,,PUNCT_7 shavedpunct
4whenwhenADVPronType=Int7 shavedadvmod
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 shavednsubj
6wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 shavedaux:pass
7shavedshaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 morningacl:relcl
8,,PUNCT_2 morningpunct
9hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 askednsubj
10askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
11ififSCONJ_14 sawmark
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 mandet
13manmanNOUNNumber=Sing14 sawnsubj
14sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 askedccomp
15anythinganythingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind14 sawobj
16oddoddADJDegree=Pos15 anythingamod
17aboutaboutADP_18 himcase
18himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 oddobl
19,,PUNCT_26 repliedpunct
20andandCCONJ_26 repliedcc
21asasSCONJ_26 repliedmark
22eacheachDETPronType=Tot24 barberdet
23freshfreshADJDegree=Pos24 barberamod
24barberbarberNOUNNumber=Sing26 repliednsubj
25alwaysalwaysADVPronType=Tot26 repliedadvmod
26repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 askedparataxis
27thatthatSCONJ_30 hadmark
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 emperordet
29emperoremperorNOUNNumber=Sing30 hadnsubj
30hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 repliedccomp
31goatgoatNOUNNumber=Sing33 earsnmod:poss
32’s'sPART_31 goatcase
33earsearNOUNNumber=Plur30 hadobj
34,,PUNCT_39 orderedpunct
35hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs39 orderednsubj
36wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin39 orderedaux:pass
37atatADP_38 oncecase
38onceonceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult39 orderedobl
39orderedorderVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass10 askedparataxis
40totoPART_42 putmark
41bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf42 putaux:pass
42putputVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass39 orderedxcomp
43totoADP_44 deathcase
44deathdeathNOUNNumber=Sing42 putobl
45..PUNCT_10 askedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1shavepast · passivegoatvn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2ask speech: askpastgoatmorningvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3see a condition, not said to happenpastthe mananythingvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
4reply speech: assertpasteach fresh barberalways propertyvn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5havepastthe emperorgoat's earsvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient
6orderpast · passiveemperorvn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
7put not said to happento-infinitive · passiveemperor not said hereto deathvn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»

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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