The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 109

The King was aghast when he heard that he had himself to put his children to death; but when he thought of Trusty John’s fidelity, and how he had even died for him, he drew his sword, and with his own hand cut the heads off his children.

Who acts: King · What happens: be, hear, have, put, think, die · To what, where: king, children, sword, heads · 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 aghast	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 aghast	cop
4	aghast	aghast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 heard	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 aghast	advcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 had	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	ccomp
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 had	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 put	mark
13	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	xcomp
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 children	nmod:poss
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 put	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 death	case
17	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 drew	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 drew	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 thought	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 thought	nsubj
22	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 drew	advcl
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 fidelity	case
24	Trusty	Trusty	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 John	compound
25	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 fidelity	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 John	case
27	fidelity	fidelity	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 thought	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 died	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 died	cc
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	34 died	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 died	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 died	aux
33	even	even	ADV	_	34 died	advmod
34	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 thought	conj
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 died	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thought	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 drew	nsubj
39	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 aghast	parataxis
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 sword	nmod:poss
41	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 drew	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 cut	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 cut	cc
44	with	with	ADP	_	47 hand	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 hand	nmod:poss
46	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 hand	amod
47	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 cut	obl
48	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 drew	conj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 heads	det
50	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 cut	obj
51	off	off	ADP	_	53 children	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 children	nmod:poss
53	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 cut	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 aghast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King			aghast property	tree rules
2	hear	past	king				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	have	past	king	king			tree rules
4	put	to-infinitive	king not said here		king's children	to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent child=Goal
5	think speech: other	past	king			of Trusty John's fidelity	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	die	past · perfect	king			for John	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for he=Theme
7	draw	past	king	king's sword			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
8	cut	past	king not said here	the heads		with king's own hand; off king's children	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient with hand=Instrument

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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