The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 13
So he took him over everything, and let him see all the riches and splendid apartments, only the one room where the picture was he did not open.
Who acts: Trusty, king, picture · What happens: take, let, see, not be · To what, where: king, everything, riches
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, king, picture), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 everything | case |
| 6 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 took | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 let | cc |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 riches | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 riches | det |
| 14 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 see | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 apartments | cc |
| 16 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 apartments | amod |
| 17 | apartments | apartment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 riches | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 room | punct |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 room | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 room | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 room | compound |
| 22 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | conj |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 open | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 picture | det |
| 25 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 open | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 open | cop |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 open | nsubj |
| 28 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 open | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 open | advmod |
| 30 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 room | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Trusty | king | everything | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | king | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | king not said here | all riches and splendid apartments | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rich=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not is | past · do-support | the picture | open property | tree rules |
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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