The Violet Fairy Book, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan, sentence 7
The emperor was satisfied with the answer, and sat down, and let a sheet of fine linen be put round him.
Who acts: emperor, sheet · What happens: be, sit down, let, put · To what, where: sheet
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, sheet), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 emperor | det |
| 2 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 satisfied | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 satisfied | cop |
| 4 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 answer | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 answer | det |
| 7 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 satisfied | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sat | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sat | cc |
| 10 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 satisfied | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 sat | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 let | cc |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 satisfied | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sheet | det |
| 16 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 let | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 linen | case |
| 18 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 linen | amod |
| 19 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sheet | nmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 put | aux:pass |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 let | xcomp |
| 22 | round | round | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 put | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 satisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the emperor | with the answer; satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | the emperor not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | the emperor not said here | a sheet of fine linen | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | put | infinitive · passive | a sheet of fine linen not said here | round emperor | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» |
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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