The Violet Fairy Book, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan, sentence 9
This pleased the emperor so much that he gave him twelve ducats, and said, ‘Henceforth you shall come every day to shave me.’
Who acts: This, pleased emperor, you · What happens: emperor, give, say, come, shave · To what, where: twelve ducats, man, me · 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 (This, pleased emperor, you), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 emperor | nsubj |
| 2 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 emperor | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 emperor | det |
| 4 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 emperor | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 gave | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 ducats | nummod |
| 12 | ducats | ducat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gave | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gave | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 come | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 come | punct |
| 18 | Henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 21 come | advmod |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 come | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | aux |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 day | det |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 come | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 shave | mark |
| 25 | shave | shave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 come | advcl |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 shave | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 come | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | emperor | This | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | give | past | the pleased emperor | twelve ducats | man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ducat=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the pleased emperor not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come | shall | you | day | henceforth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | shave | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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