The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 114
“Yes,” she answered, “but my thoughts dwelt constantly on Trusty John, and of what he has suffered for us.”
Who acts: Queen, thoughts, king, my · What happens: answer, dwell, suffer, think · To what, where: Trusty John · 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 (Queen, thoughts, king, my), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dwelt | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 dwelt | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 dwelt | cc |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 11 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dwelt | nsubj |
| 12 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 answered | conj |
| 13 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 12 dwelt | advmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 John | case |
| 15 | Trusty | Trusty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 John | compound |
| 16 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 dwelt | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 what | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 what | cc |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 what | case |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 dwelt | parataxis |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 suffered | nsubj |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 suffered | aux |
| 23 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 what | acl:relcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 us | case |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 suffered | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Queen | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | dwell in a quote | past | my thoughts | Trusty John | constantly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on john=Location | |||
| 3 | suffer in a quote | present · perfect | king | for us | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | think in a quote | my | nom thought «cognition 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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