The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 1

Once upon a time there was an old king who was so ill that he thought to himself, “I am most likely on my death-bed.”

Who acts: old king, king · What happens: be, think · To what, where: king, death bed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old king, 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 was	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 king	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 king	amod
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 ill	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ill	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 ill	advmod
13	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 king	acl:relcl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 thought	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thought	nsubj
16	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ill	advcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 himself	case
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 thought	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bed	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 bed	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 bed	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 bed	cop
23	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	24 likely	advmod
24	likely	likely	ADV	_	29 bed	advmod
25	on	on	ADP	_	29 bed	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 bed	nmod:poss
27	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bed	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 death	punct
29	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thought	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 bed	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 bed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a old king		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	a old king			ill property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	past	king	king			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	king		my death bed	likely 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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