The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 118
Trusty John is free once more, and we have our two small sons again.”
Who acts: Trusty John, we · What happens: be, have · To what, where: two small sons
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 (Trusty John, 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 | Trusty | trusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 John | amod |
| 2 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 free | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 free | cop |
| 4 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 free | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 have | cc |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 free | parataxis |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sons | nmod:poss |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 sons | nummod |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sons | amod |
| 14 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | obj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 have | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 free | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 free | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Trusty John | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | we | our two small sons | again | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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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