The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 102

The King and Queen were in despair, and the King spake: “Ah! how ill have I rewarded such great fidelity!” and made them lift up the stone image and place it in his bedroom near his bed.

Who acts: King, despair, fidelity · What happens: be, reward, make, lift up, image · To what, where: despair, bedroom

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, despair, fidelity), 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	7 despair	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Queen	cc
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 King	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 despair	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 despair	case
7	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rewarded	nsubj:pass
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 spake	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 spake	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 spake	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 spake	compound
12	spake	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 despair	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 ill	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 ill	punct
15	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	18 ill	discourse
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 Ah	punct
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 ill	advmod
18	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 despair	advcl
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 rewarded	aux
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 rewarded	nsubj
21	rewarded	reward	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
22	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fidelity	amod
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fidelity	amod
24	fidelity	fidelity	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rewarded	obj
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 fidelity	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 rewarded	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 made	cc
28	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 rewarded	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 made	obj
30	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 made	xcomp
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 lift	compound:prt
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 image	det
33	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 image	compound
34	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lift	parataxis
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 place	cc
36	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 image	conj
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 image	nsubj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 bedroom	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 bedroom	nmod:poss
40	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lift	obl
41	near	near	ADP	_	43 bed	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 bed	nmod:poss
43	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 bedroom	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 rewarded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is	past	the King and Queen		despair and the King spake	tree rules
2	reward in a quote	present · perfect · passive		despair and the King spake		tree rules
3	make	past		despair		tree rules
4	lift up	infinitive	despair not said here		king's bedroom near king's bed	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in bedroom=Destination
5	image		fidelity			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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