The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 105

One day when the Queen was at church, and the two children sat and played with their father, he gazed again full of grief on the stone statue, and sighing, wailed: “Oh, if I could only restore you to life, my most trusty John!”

Who acts: Queen, two children, king · What happens: be, sit, play, gaze, sigh, wail · To what, where: church, you, life

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 (Queen, two children, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl:unmarked
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 church	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Queen	det
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 church	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 church	cop
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 church	case
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sat	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 children	det
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 children	nummod
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 played	cc
16	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sat	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 father	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 played	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gazed	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gazed	nsubj
22	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sat	conj
23	again	again	ADV	_	24 full	advmod
24	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 gazed	xcomp
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 grief	case
26	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 full	obl
27	on	on	ADP	_	30 statue	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 statue	det
29	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 statue	compound
30	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gazed	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 wailed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 wailed	cc
33	sighing	sigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 wailed	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sighing	punct
35	wailed	wail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sat	conj
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	44 restore	punct
37	“	"	PUNCT	_	44 restore	punct
38	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	44 restore	discourse
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Oh	punct
40	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 restore	mark
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 restore	nsubj
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 restore	aux
43	only	only	ADV	_	44 restore	advmod
44	restore	restore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 wailed	ccomp
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 restore	obj
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 life	case
47	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 restore	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 John	punct
49	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 John	nmod:poss
50	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	51 trusty	advmod
51	trusty	trusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 John	amod
52	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 restore	parataxis
53	!	!	PUNCT	_	52 John	punct
54	”	"	PUNCT	_	44 restore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Queen			church			tree rules
2	sit	past	the two children				day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	play	past	the two children not said here					with children's father	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with father=Co-Agent
4	gaze	past	king					on the stone statue; full property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on statue=Theme
5	sigh	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wail	past	the two children not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	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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