The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 48

But Trusty John said: “I am only the servant of a rich merchant, what I have here is nothing compared to what my master has on his ship; his merchandise is more artistic and costly than anything that has ever been made in gold before.”

Who acts: Trusty John, servant, master, merchandise · What happens: say, be, have, compare, make · To what, where: servant, nothing, ship, gold · 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 John, servant, master, merchandise), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	Trusty	Trusty	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 John	compound
3	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 servant	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 servant	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 servant	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 servant	cop
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 servant	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 servant	det
11	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 merchant	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 merchant	det
14	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 merchant	amod
15	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 servant	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 nothing	punct
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 nothing	nsubj
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 what	acl:relcl
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 have	advmod
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 nothing	cop
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 servant	appos
23	compared	compare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 nothing	acl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 what	case
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 compared	obl
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 master	nmod:poss
27	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 has	nsubj
28	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 what	acl:relcl
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 ship	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 ship	nmod:poss
31	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 has	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 artistic	punct
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 merchandise	nmod:poss
34	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 artistic	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 artistic	cop
36	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 artistic	advmod
37	artistic	artistic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 costly	cc
39	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 artistic	conj
40	than	than	ADP	_	41 anything	case
41	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	37 artistic	obl
42	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 made	obl
43	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 made	aux
44	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	46 made	advmod
45	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 made	aux:pass
46	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 anything	acl:relcl
47	in	in	ADP	_	48 gold	case
48	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 made	obl
49	before	before	ADV	_	46 made	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 artistic	punct
51	”	"	PUNCT	_	37 artistic	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Trusty John					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	Trusty John = john	the servant			of a rich merchant	tree rules
3	have in a quote	present	Trusty John = john		here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	the servant	nothing				tree rules
5	compare in a quote	participle						vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	have in a quote	present	my master		John's ship			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	is in a quote	present	John's merchandise				than anything; artistic property	tree rules
8	be in a quote		John's merchandise not said here					tree rules
9	make in a quote	present · perfect · passive			gold	ever	before property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»

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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