The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 8

When he beholds that picture he will fall violently in love with it and go off into a dead faint, and for her sake he will encounter many dangers; you must guard him from this.”

Who acts: picture, you · What happens: behold, fall, go off, encounter, guard · To what, where: picture, love, dead faint, many dangers

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 (picture, you), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 beholds	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 beholds	nsubj
3	beholds	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fall	advcl
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 picture	det
5	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beholds	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fall	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fall	aux
8	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	violently	violently	ADV	_	8 fall	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 love	case
11	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fall	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 love	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 go	cc
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 fall	conj
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 go	compound:prt
17	into	into	ADP	_	20 faint	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 faint	det
19	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 faint	amod
20	faint	faint	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 encounter	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 encounter	cc
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 sake	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 sake	nmod:poss
25	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 encounter	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 encounter	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 encounter	aux
28	encounter	encounter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 fall	conj
29	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 dangers	amod
30	dangers	danger	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 encounter	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 guard	punct
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 guard	nsubj
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 guard	aux
34	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 fall	advcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 guard	obj
36	from	from	ADP	_	37 this	case
37	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 guard	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fall	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 fall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	behold	present	picture	that picture				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer picture=Stimulus
2	fall	future	picture			love with love	violently property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location
3	go off	infinitive	picture not said here			a dead faint		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
4	encounter	future	picture	many dangers			for Princess's sake	vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer danger=Stimulus
5	guard	must	you		picture		from this	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary from this=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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