The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 112
Then the King was full of joy, and when he saw the Queen coming, he hid Trusty John and the two children in a big cupboard.
Who acts: King, Queen · What happens: be, see, come, hide · To what, where: Queen, Trusty John, big cupboard
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, Queen), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 full | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 full | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 full | cop |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 joy | case |
| 7 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 full | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 saw | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 full | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Queen | det |
| 14 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 saw | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hid | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hid | nsubj |
| 18 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 saw | conj |
| 19 | Trusty | Trusty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 John | compound |
| 20 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 hid | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 children | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 children | det |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 children | nummod |
| 24 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hid | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 cupboard | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 cupboard | det |
| 27 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 cupboard | amod |
| 28 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hid | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | then | of joy; full property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | past | king | the Queen | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | the Queen not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hide | past | king | Trusty John | a big cupboard | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent john=Patient in cupboard=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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