The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 81

At last he said: “I will stand by my master, though it should be my ruin.”

Who acts: dance, shirt · What happens: say, stand, be · To what, where: last, ruin · 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 (dance, shirt), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 stand	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 stand	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 stand	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 stand	aux
9	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 master	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 master	nmod:poss
12	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stand	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ruin	punct
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	19 ruin	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ruin	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 ruin	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 ruin	cop
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 ruin	nmod:poss
19	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stand	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 stand	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 stand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	dance		last		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stand in a quote	future	dance			by my master	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by master=Location
3	is a in a quote	should	shirt	my ruin			tree rules

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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