The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 6

Then Trusty John answered: “I will never desert him, and will serve him faithfully, even though it should cost me my life.”

Who acts: Trusty, peace · What happens: answer, not desert, serve, cost · To what, where: Trusty, life · 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, peace), 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	4 answered	advmod
2	Trusty	Trusty	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
3	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Trusty	flat
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 desert	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 desert	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 desert	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 desert	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 desert	advmod
10	desert	desert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 answered	ccomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 desert	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 serve	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 serve	cc
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 serve	aux
15	serve	serve	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 desert	parataxis
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 serve	obj
17	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	15 serve	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cost	punct
19	even	even	ADV	_	23 cost	advmod
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	23 cost	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 cost	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 cost	aux
23	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 desert	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 cost	iobj
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 life	nmod:poss
26	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cost	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Trusty			then		tree rules
2	not desert in a quote	future	Trusty	Trusty				vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme he=Source
3	serve in a quote	future		Trusty			faithfully property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute
4	cost in a quote	should	peace	my life	Trusty			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme i=Beneficiary life=Value

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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