The Violet Fairy Book, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan, sentence 28

Then the emperor knew that even the earth gave up its secrets, and he granted the young man his life, but he never allowed him to be his barber any more.

Who acts: emperor, earth · What happens: know, give up, grant, not allow, be · To what, where: secrets, young man, man, barber · 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 (emperor, earth), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 knew	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 emperor	det
3	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 gave	mark
6	even	even	ADV	_	8 earth	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 earth	det
8	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	nsubj
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	ccomp
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 gave	compound:prt
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 secrets	nmod:poss
12	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gave	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 granted	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 granted	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 granted	nsubj
16	granted	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 granted	obj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 life	nmod:poss
21	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 man	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 allowed	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 allowed	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 allowed	nsubj
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 allowed	advmod
26	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 allowed	iobj
28	to	to	PART	_	31 barber	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 barber	cop
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 barber	nmod:poss
31	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 allowed	xcomp
32	any	any	ADV	_	33 more	advmod
33	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 allowed	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	know	past	the emperor			then	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	give up	past	the earth	earth's secrets			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Source
3	grant	past	emperor	the young man emperor's life			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent man=Theme
4	not allow	past	emperor		man		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
5	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	emperor not said here	emperor's barber			tree rules

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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