The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 3
Now Trusty John was his favorite servant, and was so called because all his life he had served him so faithfully.
Who acts: Trusty · What happens: be, call, serve · To what, where: favorite servant, 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 (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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 servant | advmod |
| 2 | Trusty | Trusty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 servant | nsubj |
| 3 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Trusty | flat |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 servant | cop |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 servant | nmod:poss |
| 6 | favorite | favorite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 servant | amod |
| 7 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 called | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 called | aux:pass |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 called | advmod |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 servant | acl |
| 13 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 16 life | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 life | det:predet |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 life | nmod:poss |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 served | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 served | aux |
| 19 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 life | acl:relcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 served | obj |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 faithfully | advmod |
| 22 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 19 served | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 servant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Trusty | Trusty's favorite servant | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | past · passive | Trusty's favorite servant not said here | because Trusty's life | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | serve | past · perfect | Trusty | king | faithfully property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute |
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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