The Violet Fairy Book, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan, sentence 5
When the youth was taken to the emperor’s bedroom, he was asked why he had come and not his master.
Who acts: emperor · What happens: take, ask, come · To what, where: youth, bedroom, emperor
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), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 taken | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux:pass |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 asked | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 bedroom | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 emperor | det |
| 8 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bedroom | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 emperor | case |
| 10 | bedroom | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 taken | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 asked | aux:pass |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 come | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 come | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 asked | advcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 master | cc |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 master | advmod |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 master | nmod:poss |
| 22 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | the youth | the emperor's bedroom | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to bedroom=Destination | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past · passive | emperor | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | come | past · perfect | emperor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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