The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 59

But the King seized her hand and spake: “I am no merchant, but a king of as high birth as yourself; and it was my great love for you that made me carry you off by stratagem.

Who acts: King, Princess, merchant, great love · What happens: seize, be, make, carry off · To what, where: hand, merchant, great love, Princess, you

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, Princess, merchant, great love), 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 seized	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 seized	nsubj
4	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hand	nmod:poss
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seized	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 spake	cc
8	spake	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hand	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 merchant	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 merchant	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 merchant	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 merchant	cop
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 merchant	det
14	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seized	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 king	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 king	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 merchant	appos
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 birth	case
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 birth	case
21	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 birth	amod
22	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 king	nmod
23	as	as	ADP	_	24 yourself	case
24	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 birth	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 love	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 love	cc
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 love	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 love	cop
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 love	nmod:poss
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 love	amod
31	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seized	obl
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 you	case
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 love	nmod
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 made	nsubj
35	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 love	acl:relcl
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 made	obj
37	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 made	xcomp
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 carry	obj
39	off	off	ADP	_	37 carry	compound:prt
40	by	by	ADP	_	41 stratagem	case
41	stratagem	stratagem	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 carry	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seize	past	the King	Princess's hand and spake		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	Princess	no merchant		tree rules
3	is a in a quote	past	merchant	my great love	for you	tree rules
4	make in a quote	past	my great love	Princess		tree rules
5	carry off in a quote	infinitive	Princess not said here	you	by stratagem	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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