The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 11
Now when the time of mourning was over, Trusty John said to him: “It is time you should see your inheritance.
Who acts: time, Trusty, mourning, king, your · What happens: be, say, see, inherit · To what, where: king, time, inheritance · 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 (time, Trusty, mourning, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 said | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 over | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 over | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 mourning | case |
| 6 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 over | cop |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 1 Now | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 10 | Trusty | Trusty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 11 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Trusty | flat |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 time | punct |
| 17 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 time | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 time | cop |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 see | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | aux |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 inheritance | nmod:poss |
| 24 | inheritance | inheritance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the time of mourning | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Trusty | king | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | mourning | time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | should | king | your inheritance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer inheritance=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | inherit in a quote | your | nom inheritance «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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