The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 79
But if anyone who knows this betrays it, he will be turned into stone from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet.”
Who acts: anyone · What happens: know, betray, turn, crown · To what, where: this, shirt, dance, stone, head
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), 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 | _ | 13 turned | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 betrays | mark |
| 3 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 betrays | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 knows | nsubj |
| 5 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 knows | obj |
| 7 | betrays | betray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 turned | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 betrays | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 betrays | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 turned | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 turned | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 turned | aux:pass |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 stone | case |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turned | obl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 crown | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 crown | det |
| 18 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turned | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 crown | nmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 soles | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 soles | det |
| 24 | soles | sole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 turned | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 feet | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 feet | nmod:poss |
| 27 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 soles | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | betray a condition, not said to happen | present | anyone | shirt | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | turn | future · passive | dance | stone | from the crown of dance's head; to the soles of dance's feet | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: subject=Theme into stone=Source from crown=Trajectory to sole=Destination | |||
| 4 | crown | dance's head | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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