The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 103
As often as he looked at it he wept and said: “Oh! if I could only restore you to life, my most trusty John!”
Who acts: king · What happens: look, weep, say, restore · To what, where: you, life · 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 (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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 often | advmod |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 looked | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 looked | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wept | nsubj |
| 9 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 restore | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 restore | punct |
| 14 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 20 restore | discourse |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 Oh | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 restore | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 restore | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 restore | aux |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 restore | advmod |
| 20 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 restore | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 life | case |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 restore | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 John | punct |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 John | nmod:poss |
| 26 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 27 trusty | advmod |
| 27 | trusty | trusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 John | amod |
| 28 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 restore | parataxis |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 John | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 restore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | king | at fidelity; often property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | weep | past | king | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | restore a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | could | king | you | life | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Theme to life=Recipient |
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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