The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 101
But as he uttered the last word Trusty John had fallen lifeless to the ground, and was a stone.
Who acts: king, Trusty · What happens: utter, fall, be · To what, where: last word, stone
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 (king, Trusty), 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 | _ | 4 uttered | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 uttered | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 uttered | nsubj |
| 4 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 word | det |
| 6 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 word | amod |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 uttered | obj |
| 8 | Trusty | Trusty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 fallen | nsubj |
| 9 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Trusty | flat |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fallen | aux |
| 11 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 word | acl:relcl |
| 12 | lifeless | lifeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fallen | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lifeless | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stone | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stone | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 stone | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 stone | det |
| 20 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 uttered | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | past | king | the last word | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fall | past · perfect | Trusty | the last word not said here | lifeless property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient word=Result | |||
| 3 | is a | past | a stone | 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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