The Violet Fairy Book, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan, sentence 27

But no tune could the chamberlain play, though he was the best flute player about the court--nothing came but the words, ‘The Emperor Trojan has goat’s ears.’

Who acts: emperor, tune, Emperor Trojan · What happens: be, come, have · To what, where: best flute player, ears

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, tune, Emperor Trojan), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 tune	det
3	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 play	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 play	det
6	chamberlain	chamberlain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 play	compound
7	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tune	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 player	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 player	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 player	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 player	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 player	det
13	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 player	amod
14	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 player	compound
15	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tune	conj
16	about	about	ADP	_	18 court	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 court	det
18	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 player	nmod
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 nothing	punct
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 tune	conj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 words	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 words	det
24	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 came	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 has	punct
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 has	punct
27	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Trojan	det
28	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Trojan	compound
29	Trojan	Trojan	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 has	nsubj
30	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 came	conj
31	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ears	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 goat	case
33	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 has	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	emperor	the best flute player	about the court	tree rules
2	come	past	no tune and the chamberlain play and the best flute player			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	present	the Emperor Trojan	goat's ears		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient

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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