The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 18

But Trusty John held him back, and said: “I promised your father before his death that you shouldn’t see what that room contains.

Who acts: Trusty John, you, room, king · What happens: hold back, say, promise, not see, contain, die · To what, where: king, father, death · 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 (Trusty John, you, room, 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 held	cc
2	Trusty	Trusty	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 John	compound
3	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 held	nsubj
4	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 held	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 held	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 held	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 promised	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 promised	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 promised	nsubj
13	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 promised	obj
16	before	before	ADP	_	18 death	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 death	nmod:poss
18	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 promised	obl
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 see	obj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 see	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 see	aux
22	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 see	advmod
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 death	acl:relcl
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 contains	obj
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 room	det
26	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 contains	nsubj
27	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 see	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	hold back	past	Trusty John	king			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Trusty John not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	promise speech: promise in a quote	past	Trusty John = john		your father	before king's death	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent father=Theme
4	not see in a quote	should	you	king's death			tree rules
5	contain in a quote	present	that room				vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
6	die in a quote		king				nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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