The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 60
And his council answered with one voice, ‘Sire, when news was brought from you the queen disappeared and no one knew where she went.
Who acts: council, Sire, one · What happens: answer, bring, disappear, know, go · To what, where: news · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (council, Sire, one), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 council | nmod:poss |
| 3 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 voice | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 voice | nummod |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sire | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sire | punct |
| 10 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 disappeared | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 brought | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 brought | advmod |
| 13 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 brought | aux:pass |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Sire | acl:relcl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 brought | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 queen | det |
| 19 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obj |
| 20 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 answered | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 knew | cc |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 one | det |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 knew | nsubj |
| 24 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 disappeared | conj |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 went | advmod |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 went | nsubj |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 knew | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | last's council | with one voice | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bring | past · passive | news | from you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme queen=Destination | ||||
| 3 | disappear | past | Sire | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | know | past | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | go | past | council | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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