The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 117
Then he rejoiced that she was of the same mind as he had been, and going forward he opened the cupboard, and fetched the two children and Trusty John out, saying: “God be praised!
Who acts: king, Queen · What happens: rejoice, be, go, open, fetch out, say · To what, where: cupboard, two children, God · 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 (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 | 3 rejoiced | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 3 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 mind | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 mind | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 mind | cop |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 mind | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mind | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mind | amod |
| 10 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rejoiced | ccomp |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 been | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 been | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 been | aux |
| 14 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 rejoiced | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 opened | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 opened | cc |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 opened | advcl |
| 18 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 17 going | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 opened | nsubj |
| 20 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rejoiced | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cupboard | det |
| 22 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 opened | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fetched | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 fetched | cc |
| 25 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rejoiced | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 children | det |
| 27 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 children | nummod |
| 28 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fetched | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 John | cc |
| 30 | Trusty | Trusty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 John | compound |
| 31 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 children | conj |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 fetched | compound:prt |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 saying | punct |
| 34 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 fetched | advcl |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 39 praised | punct |
| 36 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 praised | punct |
| 37 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 praised | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 praised | aux:pass |
| 39 | praised | praise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 saying | ccomp |
| 40 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 rejoiced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | past | king | then | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Queen | of the same mind | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | past · perfect | king | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | gerund | king not said here | forward property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | open | past | king | the cupboard | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cupboard=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fetch out | past | king not said here | the two children and Trusty John | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | ||||
| 7 | say speech: express | gerund | king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | praise in a quote | infinitive · passive | God | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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