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The Violet Fairy Book, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan, sentence 26

So the emperor desired his attendants to cut him a flute from the remaining stem, and, when it was ready, he ordered his chamberlain to play on it.

Who acts: emperor, confession, chamberlain · What happens: desire, cut, be, order, play · To what, where: attendants, flute, emperor, remaining stem, chamberlain, confession

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 (emperor, confession, chamberlain), 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

advmoddetnsubjnmod:possobjmarkxcompobjdetobjcasedetamodoblpunctccpunctadvmodnsubjcopconjpunctnsubjparataxisnmod:possobjmarkxcompcaseoblpunctrootSoADVtheDETemperorNOUNdesiredVERBhisPRONattendantsNOUNtoPARTcutVERBhimPRONaDETfluteNOUNfromADPtheDETremainingADJstemNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCTwhenADVitPRONwasAUXreadyADJ,PUNCThePRONorderedVERBhisPRONchamberlainNOUNtoPARTplayVERBonADPitPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_4 desiredadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 emperordet
3emperoremperorNOUNNumber=Sing4 desirednsubj
4desireddesireVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 attendantsnmod:poss
6attendantsattendantNOUNNumber=Plur4 desiredobj
7totoPART_8 cutmark
8cutcutVERBVerbForm=Inf4 desiredxcomp
9himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 cutobj
10aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 flutedet
11flutefluteNOUNNumber=Sing8 cutobj
12fromfromADP_15 stemcase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 stemdet
14remainingremainingADJDegree=Pos15 stemamod
15stemstemNOUNNumber=Sing8 cutobl
16,,PUNCT_22 readypunct
17andandCCONJ_22 readycc
18,,PUNCT_22 readypunct
19whenwhenADVPronType=Int22 readyadvmod
20ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 readynsubj
21wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 readycop
22readyreadyADJDegree=Pos4 desiredconj
23,,PUNCT_25 orderedpunct
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 orderednsubj
25orderedorderVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 desiredparataxis
26hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 chamberlainnmod:poss
27chamberlainchamberlainNOUNNumber=Sing25 orderedobj
28totoPART_29 playmark
29playplayVERBVerbForm=Inf25 orderedxcomp
30ononADP_31 itcase
31ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 playobl
32..PUNCT_4 desiredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1desirepastthe emperoremperor's attendantstree rules
2cut not said to happento-infinitivethe emperor not said herea fluteemperorthe remaining stemvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP PP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary flute=Product from stem=Material
3ispastconfessionready propertytree rules
4orderpastemperoremperor's chamberlainvn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent chamberlain=Recipient clause=Topic
5play not said to happento-infinitiveemperor's chamberlain not said hereconfessionvn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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