The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 62
But when the Captain of the Guard would have taken her tongue it turned out to be quite black, so that would not have deceived the King either.
Who acts: it, that · What happens: take, turn out, be, not deceive · To what, where: Captain, King
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, that), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 turned | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 taken | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Captain | det |
| 4 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Guard | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Guard | det |
| 7 | Guard | Guard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Captain | nmod |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 taken | aux |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 taken | aux |
| 10 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 turned | advcl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 12 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taken | obj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 turned | nsubj |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 turned | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 black | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 black | cop |
| 18 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 19 black | advmod |
| 19 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 turned | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 deceived | punct |
| 21 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 26 deceived | mark |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 deceived | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 deceived | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 deceived | advmod |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 deceived | aux |
| 26 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 turned | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 King | det |
| 28 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 deceived | obj |
| 29 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 26 deceived | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | would · perfect · passive | the Captain of the Guard | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme tongue=Destination | |||||
| 2 | turn out | past | it | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | black property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not deceive | would · perfect | that | the King | either property | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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 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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