The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 38
Trusty John made the King remain behind on the ship and await his return.
Who acts: Trusty John, King · What happens: make, remain, await, return · To what, where: ship, return
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 John, King), 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 | Trusty | trusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 John | amod |
| 2 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 remain | nsubj |
| 6 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | ccomp |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 6 remain | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 ship | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ship | det |
| 10 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remain | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 await | cc |
| 12 | await | await | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 remain | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 return | nmod:poss |
| 14 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 await | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Trusty John | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | remain | present | the King | the ship | behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ship=Location | |||
| 3 | await | infinitive | the King not said here | king's return | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | return | king | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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