The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 27

The first words he spoke were: “Oh! who is the original of the beautiful picture?”

Who acts: Trusty, first words · What happens: speak, be · To what, where: first words, original · 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, first words), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 words	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 words	amod
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 original	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spoke	nsubj
5	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 words	acl:relcl
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 original	cop
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 were	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 original	punct
9	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	14 original	discourse
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 Oh	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 original	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 original	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 original	det
14	original	original	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 picture	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 picture	det
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 picture	amod
18	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 original	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 original	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 original	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Trusty	the first words not said here					tree rules
2	is a in a quote	past	the first words	the original				of the beautiful picture	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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