--- title: Ruby is sure Napoleon was tiny and bossy because of it, Henry swears… — Kings, queens and emperors · tree and pragmatics description: Ruby is sure Napoleon was tiny and bossy because of it, Henry swears Nero fiddled while Rome burned, and the quote card on the wall says Marie Antoinette told hungry people to "eat cake". Who acts: Ruby, Napoleon, Henry, Nero. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ruby, Napoleon, Henry, Nero), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:019-kings-queens-and-emperors.lesson:0 # text = Ruby is sure Napoleon was tiny and bossy because of it, Henry swears Nero fiddled while Rome burned, and the quote card on the wall says Marie Antoinette told hungry people to "eat cake". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 019-kings-queens-and-emperors.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Ruby Ruby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 Napoleon Napoleon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 bossy bossy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 9 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 11 case _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 9 fixed _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 Henry Henry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 swears swear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 15 Nero Nero PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 fiddled fiddle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 17 while while SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 Rome Rome PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 burned burn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 quote quote NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 29 Marie Marie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 Antoinette Antoinette PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 flat _ _ 31 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 32 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 iobj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 36 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 37 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Ruby | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | Napoleon | | | | | tiny *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | Napoleon *not said here* | | | | | because it | tree rules | | 4 | **swear** | present | Henry | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **fiddle** | past | Nero | | | | | | vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **burn** | past | Rome | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the quote card on the wall | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Marie | | hungry people | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | | 9 | **eat** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Marie *not said here* | cake | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:myths:019-kings-queens-and-emperors.lesson:0`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/18-vikings-knights-and-the-middle-ages/19/) - next →: [Kings, queens and emperors, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/19-kings-queens-and-emperors/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/19-kings-queens-and-emperors/)