The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 50

Thus her desire and curiosity were excited to such an extent that at last she said: “Take me to your ship; I shall go there myself and view your master’s treasures.”

Who acts: desire, master · What happens: be, such, say, take, go, view · To what, where: extent, master, treasures · 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 (desire, master), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	7 excited	advmod
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 desire	nmod:poss
3	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 excited	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 curiosity	cc
5	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 desire	conj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 excited	cop
7	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 such	mark
9	such	such	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 excited	xcomp
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 extent	det
11	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 such	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 said	obl:unmarked
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 that	obl
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 extent	acl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 Take	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 Take	punct
19	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 Take	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 ship	case
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 ship	nmod:poss
23	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Take	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 go	nsubj
26	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 go	aux
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 excited	parataxis
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 go	advmod
29	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	27 go	obl:unmarked
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 view	cc
31	view	view	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 go	conj
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 master	nmod:poss
33	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 treasures	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 master	case
35	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 view	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 excited	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 excited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	master's desire and curiosity				excited, thus property	tree rules
2	such	to-infinitive	master's desire and curiosity not said here	a extent				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	master	a extent				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take in a quote	infinitive			master		to your ship	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
5	go in a quote	shall	master	master		there		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	view in a quote	infinitive	master not said here	your master's treasures				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer treasure=Stimulus
7	desire		master					nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
8	treasure in a quote		your master					nom treasure «possession transitive»: 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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