The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 36

When a ship had been laden with them the faithful John disguised himself as a merchant, and the King had to do the same, so that they should be quite unrecognizable.

Who acts: faithful John, King, goldsmiths · What happens: lade, disguise, have, do, be · To what, where: ship, John, same

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 (faithful John, King, goldsmiths), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 laden	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ship	det
3	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laden	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laden	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 laden	aux:pass
6	laden	lade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 disguised	advcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 laden	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 John	det
10	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 John	amod
11	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 disguised	nsubj
12	disguised	disguise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 disguised	obj
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 merchant	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 merchant	det
16	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 disguised	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 King	det
20	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 disguised	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 do	mark
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 had	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 same	det
25	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 do	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 unrecognizable	punct
27	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	33 unrecognizable	mark
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 so	fixed
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 unrecognizable	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 unrecognizable	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 unrecognizable	cop
32	quite	quite	ADV	_	33 unrecognizable	advmod
33	unrecognizable	unrecognizable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 do	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 disguised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lade	past · perfect · passive		a ship	with goldsmiths = goldsmith	tree rules
2	disguise	past	the faithful John	John	as a merchant	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Destination
3	have	past	the King			tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive	the King not said here	the same		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality
5	is	should	goldsmiths = goldsmith		unrecognizable property	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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