The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 116
The Queen grew white and her heart sank, but she replied: “We owe it to him on account of his great fidelity.”
Who acts: Queen, heart, We · What happens: grow, sink, reply, owe, account · To what, where: price, king, account, great fidelity · 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, heart, We), 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 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sank | cc |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 heart | nmod:poss |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sank | nsubj |
| 8 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 replied | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | parataxis |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 owe | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 owe | punct |
| 15 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 owe | nsubj |
| 16 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 replied | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 owe | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 owe | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 account | case |
| 21 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 owe | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 fidelity | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 fidelity | nmod:poss |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fidelity | amod |
| 25 | fidelity | fidelity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 account | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the Queen | white property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sink | past | Queen's heart | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Queen | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | owe in a quote | present | We | price | king | account of king's great fidelity | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Goal | ||
| 5 | account in a quote | king's great fidelity | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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