The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 20

“Ah! no,” answered the young King; “if I don’t get in, it will be my certain destruction; I should have no peace night or day till I had seen what was in the room with my own eyes.

Who acts: young King, death · What happens: answer, not get in, be, have, see · To what, where: certain destruction, room · 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 (young King, death), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 answered	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 Ah	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 King	amod
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 destruction	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 destruction	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 get	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 get	nsubj
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 get	aux
16	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 get	advmod
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 destruction	advcl
18	in	in	ADV	_	17 get	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 get	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 destruction	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 destruction	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 destruction	cop
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 destruction	nmod:poss
24	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 destruction	amod
25	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 have	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 have	aux
29	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 answered	conj
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 night	det
31	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 night	compound
32	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 have	obj
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 day	cc
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 night	conj
35	till	till	SCONJ	_	38 seen	mark
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 seen	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 seen	aux
38	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 have	advcl
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	43 room	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 room	cop
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 room	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 room	det
43	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 seen	ccomp
44	with	with	ADP	_	47 eyes	case
45	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 eyes	nmod:poss
46	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 eyes	amod
47	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 room	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the young King					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not get in a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	the young King = king					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a in a quote	future	death	my certain destruction				tree rules
4	have in a quote	should	the young King = king			night		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	see in a quote	past · perfect	the young King = king					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is in a quote	past			the room		with my own eyes	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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