The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 17
But the King replied: “I have seen the whole castle, and shall find out what is in there”; and with these words he approached the door and wanted to force it open.
Who acts: King · What happens: reply, see, find out, be, approach, want · To what, where: whole castle, door · 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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 replied | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 seen | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 seen | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 seen | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 replied | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 castle | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 castle | amod |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seen | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 find | cc |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 find | aux |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | parataxis |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 find | compound:prt |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 there | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 there | cop |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 there | case |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 find | conj |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 there | punct |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 approached | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 approached | cc |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 words | case |
| 26 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 27 words | det |
| 27 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 approached | obl |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 approached | nsubj |
| 29 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 replied | parataxis |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 door | det |
| 31 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 approached | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 wanted | cc |
| 33 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 approached | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 force | mark |
| 35 | force | force | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 wanted | xcomp |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 force | obj |
| 37 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 force | xcomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present · perfect | the King = king | the whole castle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | find out in a quote | shall | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | there property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | approach | past | king | the door | with this words | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent door=Theme with word=Instrument | |||
| 6 | want | past | king not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | force not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | door | open property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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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