The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 83

“Capital!” said the King; “this animal shall carry me to my palace,” and was about to mount, but Trusty John was too sharp for him, and, springing up quickly, seized the pistol out of the holster and shot the horse dead.

Who acts: Capital, animal, Trusty John · What happens: say, carry, be, mount, spring up, seize · To what, where: Capital, palace, pistol, holster, horse · 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 (Capital, animal, Trusty John), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Capital	punct
2	Capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Capital	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Capital	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 carry	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 carry	punct
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 animal	det
11	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carry	nsubj
12	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 carry	aux
13	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 carry	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 palace	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 palace	nmod:poss
17	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carry	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 palace	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 carry	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 about	cc
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 about	cop
22	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 mount	mark
24	mount	mount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 about	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sharp	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 sharp	cc
27	Trusty	Trusty	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 John	compound
28	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 sharp	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sharp	cop
30	too	too	ADV	_	31 sharp	advmod
31	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	parataxis
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sharp	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 seized	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 seized	cc
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 springing	punct
37	springing	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 seized	ccomp
38	up	up	ADP	_	37 springing	compound:prt
39	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	37 springing	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 springing	punct
41	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sharp	parataxis
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 pistol	det
43	pistol	pistol	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 seized	obj
44	out	out	ADP	_	47 holster	case
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 holster	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 holster	det
47	holster	holster	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 seized	obl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 shot	cc
49	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 seized	conj
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 horse	det
51	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 shot	obj
52	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 shot	xcomp
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Capital				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	carry in a quote	shall	this animal	Capital	my palace		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to palace=Destination
3	is	past	Capital not said here			about property	tree rules
4	mount	to-infinitive	Capital not said here				vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	Trusty John			for animal; sharp property	tree rules
6	spring up	gerund				quickly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	seize	past		the pistol	the holster		tree rules
8	shoot	past		the horse		dead property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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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