The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 85

But the King spake: “Silence! let him alone; he is ever my most trusty John.

Who acts: King spake, spake · What happens: let, be · To what, where: Silence, trusty John

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 (King spake, spake), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 spake	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spake	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spake	compound
4	spake	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 let	nsubj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Silence	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 Silence	punct
7	Silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 let	nsubj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 Silence	punct
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 let	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 John	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 John	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 John	cop
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 John	advmod
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 John	nmod:poss
17	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	18 trusty	advmod
18	trusty	trusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 John	amod
19	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 let	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive	the King spake	Silence				alone property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	spake = speak	my trusty John			ever		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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