The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 2
Then he said, “Send Trusty John to me.”
Who acts: king · What happens: say, send · To what, where: Trusty John, king · 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Send | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Send | punct |
| 6 | Send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | Trusty | Trusty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 John | compound |
| 8 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Send | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 Send | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Send | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | king | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | send in a quote | infinitive | Trusty John | king | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent john=Theme to i=Destination |
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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