The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 25

Trusty John lifted him up, carried him to bed, and thought sorrowfully: “The curse has come upon us; gracious heaven! what will be the end of it all?”

Who acts: Trusty John, curse, gracious heaven · What happens: lift up, carry, think, come, be · To what, where: Trusty, bed, end · 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, curse, gracious heaven), 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	Trusty	trusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 John	amod
2	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lifted	nsubj
3	lifted	lift	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 lifted	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 lifted	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 carried	punct
7	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lifted	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 carried	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 bed	case
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carried	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thought	cc
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lifted	parataxis
14	sorrowfully	sorrowfully	ADV	_	13 thought	advmod
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
17	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 curse	det
18	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	nsubj
19	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 thought	conj
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 us	case
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 come	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 heaven	punct
24	gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 heaven	amod
25	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lifted	parataxis
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 end	punct
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 end	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 end	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 end	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 end	det
31	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heaven	appos
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 end	nmod
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 it	det
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 end	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 end	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lift up	past	Trusty John	Trusty			tree rules
2	carry	past	Trusty John not said here	Trusty	bed		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to bed=Destination
3	think speech: other	past				sorrowfully property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come in a quote	present · perfect	the curse			upon us	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon we=Location
5	is a in a quote	future	gracious heaven	the end		of curse	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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