The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 78

Then number three spake: “I know yet more: though the bridal shirt too be burnt, the King hasn’t even then secured his bride: when the dance is held after the wedding, and the young Queen is dancing, she will suddenly grow deadly white, and drop down like one dead, and unless some one lifts her up and draws three drops of blood from her right side, and spits them out again, she will die.

Who acts: number, bridal shirt, King, young Queen, Queen, one · What happens: know, be, not have, secure, hold, dance · To what, where: bride, dance, Queen, three drops, right side, drops

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 (number, bridal shirt, King, young Queen), 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 spake	advmod
2	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spake	compound
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 number	flat
4	spake	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 know	nsubj
8	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 spake	conj
9	yet	yet	ADV	_	10 more	advmod
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 know	advmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 burnt	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	18 burnt	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shirt	det
14	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 shirt	amod
15	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 burnt	nsubj
16	too	too	ADV	_	18 burnt	advmod
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 burnt	cop
18	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 know	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 has	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 King	det
21	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 has	nsubj
22	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 burnt	conj
23	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 has	advmod
24	even	even	ADV	_	26 secured	advmod
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 secured	advmod
26	secured	secure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 has	advcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 bride	nmod:poss
28	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 secured	obj
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 held	punct
30	when	when	SCONJ	_	34 held	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 dance	det
32	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 held	nsubj:pass
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 held	aux:pass
34	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 burnt	conj
35	after	after	ADP	_	37 wedding	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 wedding	det
37	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 held	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 dancing	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 dancing	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Queen	det
41	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 Queen	amod
42	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 dancing	nsubj
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 dancing	aux
44	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 burnt	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 grow	punct
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 grow	nsubj
47	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 grow	aux
48	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	49 grow	advmod
49	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 burnt	advcl
50	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 white	amod
51	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 grow	xcomp
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 drop	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 drop	cc
54	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 burnt	conj
55	down	down	ADP	_	54 drop	compound:prt
56	like	like	ADP	_	58 dead	case
57	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	58 dead	nummod
58	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 drop	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	86 die	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	86 die	cc
61	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	64 lifts	mark
62	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	63 one	det
63	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 lifts	nsubj
64	lifts	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	86 die	advcl
65	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 lifts	obj
66	up	up	ADP	_	64 lifts	compound:prt
67	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 draws	cc
68	draws	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	64 lifts	conj
69	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	70 drops	nummod
70	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	68 draws	obj
71	of	of	ADP	_	72 blood	case
72	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 drops	nmod
73	from	from	ADP	_	76 side	case
74	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	76 side	nmod:poss
75	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	76 side	amod
76	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 drops	nmod
77	,	,	PUNCT	_	79 spits	punct
78	and	and	CCONJ	_	79 spits	cc
79	spits	spit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	64 lifts	conj
80	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	79 spits	obj
81	out	out	ADP	_	79 spits	compound:prt
82	again	again	ADV	_	79 spits	advmod
83	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 lifts	punct
84	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	86 die	nsubj
85	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	86 die	aux
86	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 drop	conj
87	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	number					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is in a quote	infinitive	the bridal shirt				burnt property	tree rules
3	not have in a quote	present	the King					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	secure in a quote	past	the King not said here	king's bride		then		vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition bride=Theme
5	hold in a quote	present · passive		the dance		after the wedding		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	dance in a quote	present · progressive	the young Queen					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	grow in a quote	future	Queen				suddenly, white property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	drop down in a quote	infinitive	the bridal shirt not said here				like one dead	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
9	lift up a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	some one	Queen				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
10	draw in a quote	present	some one not said here	three drops of blood	Queen's right side			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent drop=Theme from side=Initial_Location
11	spit out in a quote	present	some one not said here	drops = drop		again		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
12	die in a quote	future	Queen					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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