The Violet Fairy Book, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan, sentence 3
Now after this state of things had lasted a good while, there was hardly a barber left in the town that could shave the emperor, and it came to be the turn of the Master of the Company of Barbers to go up to the palace.
Who acts: town, state · What happens: last, be, leave, shave, come, go up · To what, where: state, barber, town, emperor, turn
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 (town, state), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 lasted | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 lasted | mark |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 state | det |
| 4 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lasted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 things | case |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 state | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lasted | aux |
| 8 | lasted | last | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 while | det |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 while | amod |
| 11 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lasted | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lasted | punct |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lasted | advcl |
| 15 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 14 was | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 barber | det |
| 17 | barber | barber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hardly | nsubj |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 barber | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 town | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 town | det |
| 21 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 left | obl |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 shave | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 shave | aux |
| 24 | shave | shave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 town | acl:relcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 emperor | det |
| 26 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shave | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 came | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 came | cc |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 came | nsubj |
| 30 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lasted | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 turn | mark |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 turn | cop |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 turn | det |
| 34 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 came | advcl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Master | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Master | det |
| 37 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 turn | nmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Company | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Company | det |
| 40 | Company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 turn | nmod |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Barbers | case |
| 42 | Barbers | barber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 Company | nmod |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 go | mark |
| 44 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 Barbers | acl |
| 45 | up | up | ADP | _ | 44 go | compound:prt |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 palace | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 palace | det |
| 48 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 go | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | past · perfect · passive | this state of things | now; while | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value | ||||
| 2 | be | past | there | hardly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | participle | a barber not said here | in the town result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in town=Result | ||||
| 4 | shave | could | the town | the emperor | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=Patient | ||||
| 5 | come | past | state | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is a | to-infinitive | state not said here | the turn | of the Master; of the Company of Barbers | tree rules | |||
| 7 | go up | to-infinitive | state not said here | to the palace | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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