The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 80

When the ravens had thus conversed they fled onward, but Trusty John had taken it all in, and was sad and depressed from that time forward; for if he were silent to his master concerning what he had heard, he would involve him in misfortune; but if he took him into his confidence, then he himself would forfeit his life.

Who acts: ravens, Trusty, master, dance · What happens: converse, flee, take, be, concern, hear · To what, where: ravens, shirt, dance, misfortune, Trusty, confidence · 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 (ravens, Trusty, master, dance), 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	6 conversed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ravens	det
3	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 conversed	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 conversed	aux
5	thus	thus	ADV	_	6 conversed	advmod
6	conversed	converse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 fled	advcl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fled	nsubj
8	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	onward	onward	ADV	_	8 fled	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 taken	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 taken	cc
12	Trusty	Trusty	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 taken	nsubj
13	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Trusty	flat
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 taken	aux
15	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 fled	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 taken	obj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 it	det
18	in	in	ADV	_	15 taken	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sad	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sad	cc
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sad	cop
22	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fled	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 depressed	cc
24	depressed	depressed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sad	conj
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 time	case
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sad	obl
28	forward	forward	ADV	_	22 sad	advmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 silent	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 silent	mark
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 silent	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 silent	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 silent	cop
34	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fled	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 master	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 master	nmod:poss
37	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 silent	obl
38	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 master	acl
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	42 heard	obj
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 heard	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 heard	aux
42	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 concerning	ccomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 heard	punct
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 involve	nsubj
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 involve	aux
46	involve	involve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 heard	ccomp
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 involve	obj
48	in	in	ADP	_	49 misfortune	case
49	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 involve	obl
50	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 took	punct
51	but	but	CCONJ	_	54 took	cc
52	if	if	SCONJ	_	54 took	mark
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 took	nsubj
54	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fled	conj
55	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 took	obj
56	into	into	ADP	_	58 confidence	case
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 confidence	nmod:poss
58	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 took	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 forfeit	punct
60	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	64 forfeit	advmod
61	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 forfeit	nsubj
62	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	61 he	nmod:unmarked
63	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 forfeit	aux
64	forfeit	forfeit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 took	parataxis
65	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	66 life	nmod:poss
66	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 forfeit	obj
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	converse speech: other	past · perfect · passive		the ravens			thus property	tree rules
2	flee	past	ravens = raven				onward property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	past · perfect	Trusty	shirt				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	is	past	ravens = raven not said here			time	forward, sad property	tree rules
5	be		ravens = raven not said here					tree rules
6	is a condition, not said to happen	past	Trusty				to Trusty's master; silent property	tree rules
7	concern	gerund	Trusty's master not said here					tree rules
8	hear	past · perfect	Trusty					tree rules
9	involve	would	Trusty	dance			in misfortune goal	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent he=Theme in misfortune=Goal
10	take a condition, not said to happen	past	dance	Trusty	dance's confidence			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into confidence=Destination
11	forfeit	would	dance	dance's life		then		vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent life=Theme
12	confide		dance					nom confidence «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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