The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 30

You are my most trusty John: you must stand by me.”

Who acts: You · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: trusty John

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 (You), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 John	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 John	cop
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 John	nmod:poss
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 trusty	advmod
5	trusty	trusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 John	amod
6	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 stand	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 stand	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 stand	aux
10	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 John	parataxis
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 stand	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 stand	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 stand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	You	my trusty John					tree rules
2	stand	must	you					by me	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by i=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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