The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 10

When the old King had been carried to his grave Trusty John told the young King what he had promised his father on his death-bed, and added: “And I shall assuredly keep my word, and shall be faithful to you as I have been to him, even though it should cost me my life.”

Who acts: John, king, word, my · What happens: carry, tell, promise, add, keep, be · To what, where: old King, grave Trusty, young King, father, death bed, word · 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 (John, king, word, my), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	7 carried	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 King	amod
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 carried	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 carried	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 carried	aux:pass
7	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 told	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 Trusty	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 Trusty	nmod:poss
10	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Trusty	amod
11	Trusty	Trusty	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 carried	obl
12	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 King	det
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 King	amod
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 told	iobj
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 promised	obj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 promised	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 promised	aux
20	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 told	ccomp
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 father	nmod:poss
22	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 promised	iobj
23	on	on	ADP	_	27 bed	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 bed	nmod:poss
25	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bed	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 death	punct
27	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 promised	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 added	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 added	cc
30	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 told	conj
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 added	punct
32	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 keep	punct
33	And	and	CCONJ	_	37 keep	cc
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 keep	nsubj
35	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 keep	aux
36	assuredly	assuredly	ADV	_	37 keep	advmod
37	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 added	advcl
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 word	nmod:poss
39	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 keep	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 faithful	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 faithful	cc
42	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 faithful	aux
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 faithful	cop
44	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 told	conj
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 you	case
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 faithful	obl
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	52 him	mark
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 him	nsubj
49	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 him	aux
50	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	52 him	cop
51	to	to	ADP	_	52 him	case
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 faithful	advcl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 cost	punct
54	even	even	ADV	_	58 cost	advmod
55	though	though	SCONJ	_	58 cost	mark
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 cost	nsubj
57	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 cost	aux
58	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 told	ccomp
59	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	58 cost	iobj
60	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 life	nmod:poss
61	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 cost	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	58 cost	punct
63	”	"	PUNCT	_	58 cost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past · perfect · passive		the old King	king's grave Trusty			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to trusty=Destination
2	tell speech: assert	past	John		the young King			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic
3	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	king		king's father	king's death bed		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent father=Goal what=Theme
4	add speech: assert	past	John not said here					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	keep in a quote	shall	John	my word			assuredly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
6	is in a quote	shall	John not said here		the young King = king		faithful property	tree rules
7	is in a quote	present · perfect	John				to king	tree rules
8	cost in a quote	should	word	my life	John			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme i=Beneficiary life=Value
9	word in a quote		my					nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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