The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 110
And when he had smeared the stone with their blood, life came back, and Trusty John stood once more safe and sound before him.
Who acts: king, life, Trusty · What happens: smear, come back, stand · To what, where: stone
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, life, Trusty), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 smeared | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 smeared | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 smeared | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 smeared | aux |
| 5 | smeared | smear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stone | det |
| 7 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 smeared | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 blood | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 blood | nmod:poss |
| 10 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 smeared | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 smeared | parataxis |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stood | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stood | cc |
| 17 | Trusty | Trusty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 stood | nsubj |
| 18 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Trusty | flat |
| 19 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 21 more | advmod |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 safe | advmod |
| 22 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stood | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sound | cc |
| 24 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 safe | conj |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stood | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 smeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smear | past · perfect | king | the stone | with stones's blood | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent stone=Destination with blood=Theme | |||
| 2 | come back | past | life | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | Trusty | before king | safe property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location |
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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