The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 26
Then he poured wine down his throat till he came to himself again.
Who acts: Trusty · What happens: pour, come · To what, where: wine, Trusty
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), 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 poured | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 poured | nsubj |
| 3 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 poured | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 throat | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 throat | nmod:poss |
| 7 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 poured | obl |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 poured | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 himself | case |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 came | obl |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 poured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | past | Trusty | wine | then | down Trusty's throat | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | ||
| 2 | come | past | Trusty | Trusty | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to himself=Initial_Location |
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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