The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 84

Then the other servants of the King, who at no time looked favorably on Trusty John, cried out: “What a sin to kill the beautiful beast that was to bear the King to his palace!”

Who acts: other servants, beautiful beast · What happens: look, cry out, kill, be · To what, where: sin, beautiful beast · 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 (other servants, beautiful beast), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 looked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 servants	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 servants	amod
4	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 looked	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 King	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 servants	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looked	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 looked	nsubj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 time	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 who	nmod
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	favorably	favorably	ADV	_	13 looked	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 John	case
16	Trusty	Trusty	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 John	compound
17	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 looked	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cried	punct
19	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 looked	conj
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 cried	compound:prt
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 sin	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 sin	punct
23	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	25 sin	det
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 sin	det
25	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cried	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 kill	mark
27	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 sin	acl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 beast	det
29	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 beast	amod
30	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 kill	obj
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 bear	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 bear	cop
33	to	to	PART	_	34 bear	mark
34	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 beast	acl:relcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 King	det
36	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 bear	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 palace	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 palace	nmod:poss
39	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bear	obl
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 sin	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 sin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the other servants of the King		then	on Trusty John; favorably property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on john=Theme
2	cry out speech: express	past	the other servants of the King not said here	what sin			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	kill in a quote	to-infinitive	the other servants of the King not said here	the beautiful beast			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme
4	is in a quote	past	the beautiful beast	the beautiful beast not said here		to king's palace; bear property	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/41/84/