The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 4

When he approached the bed the King spake to him: “Most trusty John, I feel my end is drawing near, and I could face it without a care were it not for my son.

Who acts: king, trusty John · What happens: approach, feel, draw, face, be · To what, where: bed, Trusty, end · 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 (king, trusty John), 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	3 approached	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 approached	nsubj
3	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bed	det
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 approached	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spake	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 spake	compound
8	spake	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 approached	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 approached	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 John	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 John	punct
13	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 John	nsubj
14	trusty	trusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 John	amod
15	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 drawing	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 feel	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 feel	nsubj
18	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 John	conj
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 end	nmod:poss
20	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 feel	obj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 drawing	aux
22	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 approached	ccomp
23	near	near	ADV	_	22 drawing	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 face	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 face	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 face	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 face	aux
28	face	face	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 drawing	advcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 face	obj
30	without	without	ADP	_	32 care	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 care	det
32	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 face	obl
33	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 drawing	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 were	obj
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 son	advmod
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 son	case
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 son	nmod:poss
38	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 were	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 approached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	approach	past	king	the bed	Trusty		tree rules
2	feel in a quote	present	king	my end			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme
3	draw in a quote	present · progressive	trusty John			near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	face in a quote	could	king	end		without a care	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination
5	be in a quote	past	trusty John not said here	end		for my son	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot it=Theme for son=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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