The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 51
Then Trusty John was quite delighted, and brought her to the ship; and the King, when he beheld her, saw that she was even more beautiful than her picture, and thought every moment that his heart would burst.
Who acts: Trusty, king, master, heart · What happens: be, bring, behold, see, think, burst · To what, where: master, moment · 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, king, master, heart), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 delighted | advmod |
| 2 | Trusty | Trusty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Trusty | flat |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 delighted | cop |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 delighted | advmod |
| 6 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 brought | cc |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 delighted | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 ship | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ship | det |
| 13 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 saw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 King | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 beheld | punct |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 beheld | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 beheld | nsubj |
| 21 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 King | acl:relcl |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 beheld | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 saw | punct |
| 24 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 delighted | conj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 beautiful | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 beautiful | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 beautiful | cop |
| 28 | even | even | ADV | _ | 29 more | advmod |
| 29 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 30 beautiful | advmod |
| 30 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 saw | ccomp |
| 31 | than | than | ADP | _ | 33 picture | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 picture | nmod:poss |
| 33 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 beautiful | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 thought | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 thought | cc |
| 36 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 saw | advcl |
| 37 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 moment | det |
| 38 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 thought | obj |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 burst | mark |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 heart | nmod:poss |
| 41 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 burst | nsubj |
| 42 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 burst | aux |
| 43 | burst | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 moment | acl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Trusty | then | delighted property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bring | past | Trusty not said here | master | to the ship | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | |||
| 3 | behold | past | king | master | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | see | past | the King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | master | than master's picture; beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | the King not said here | moment | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | burst | would | king's heart | every moment not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location moment=Theme |
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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