The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 57

The King will come back to life, and will be just as he was when he was twenty years old.

Who acts: King · What happens: come back, be · To what, where: life

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 life	case
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 old	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 old	cc
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 old	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 old	cop
12	just	just	ADV	_	21 old	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 old	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 old	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 old	cop
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 old	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 old	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 old	cop
19	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 years	nummod
20	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 old	obl:unmarked
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 come	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	future	the King			life			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location
2	is	future	king				year	old property	tree rules

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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