The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 77
Anyone knowing this and telling it will have half his body turned into stone, from his knees to his heart.”
Who acts: Anyone, body · What happens: know, tell, have, turn · To what, where: this, shirt, stone · 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 (Anyone, body), 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 | Anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 have | nsubj |
| 2 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Anyone | acl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 knowing | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 telling | cc |
| 5 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 knowing | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 telling | obj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | aux |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 11 body | det:predet |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 body | nmod:poss |
| 11 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turned | nsubj |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | parataxis |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 stone | case |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 knees | punct |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 knees | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 knees | nmod:poss |
| 18 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 turned | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 heart | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 heart | nmod:poss |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turned | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | shirt | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | have | future | Anyone | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | turn | past | king's body | stone | from king's knees; to king's heart | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into stone=Source from knee=Trajectory to heart=Destination |
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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