The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 88

The young King went toward it and was about to take hold of it, but Trusty John, pushing him aside, seized it with his gloved hands, threw it hastily into the fire, and let it burn The other servants commenced grumbling again, and said: “See, he’s actually burning the King’s bridal shirt.”

Who acts: young King, Trusty, palace, other servants, king · What happens: go, be, take, push, seize, glove · To what, where: palace, hold, Trusty, fire, bridal shirt · 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 (young King, Trusty, palace, other servants), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 King	amod
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	toward	toward	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 about	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 about	cop
9	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 take	mark
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 about	xcomp
12	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hold	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seized	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 seized	cc
17	Trusty	Trusty	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 seized	nsubj
18	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Trusty	flat
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pushing	punct
20	pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 Trusty	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pushing	obj
22	aside	aside	ADV	_	20 pushing	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Trusty	punct
24	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seized	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 hands	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hands	nmod:poss
28	gloved	glove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 hands	amod
29	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 seized	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 threw	punct
31	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 seized	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 threw	obj
33	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	31 threw	advmod
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 fire	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 fire	det
36	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 threw	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 let	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 let	cc
39	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 let	obj
41	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 let	xcomp
42	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 servants	det
43	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 servants	amod
44	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 commenced	nsubj
45	commenced	commence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 burn	ccomp
46	grumbling	grumble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 commenced	xcomp
47	again	again	ADV	_	46 grumbling	advmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 said	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 said	cc
50	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
51	:	:	PUNCT	_	53 See	punct
52	“	"	PUNCT	_	53 See	punct
53	See	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 said	ccomp
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 burning	punct
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 burning	nsubj
56	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 burning	aux
57	actually	actually	ADV	_	58 burning	advmod
58	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	63 shirt	csubj
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 King	det
60	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	63 shirt	nmod:poss
61	’s	's	PART	_	60 King	case
62	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 shirt	amod
63	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 See	obj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	53 See	punct
65	”	"	PUNCT	_	53 See	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the young King		palace			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme toward it=Initial_Location
2	is	past	the young King not said here				about property	tree rules
3	take	to-infinitive	the young King not said here	hold of palace				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
4	push	gerund	Trusty not said here	Trusty			aside property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	seize	past	Trusty	palace			with Trusty's gloved hands	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	glove	participle						vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
7	throw	past	Trusty not said here	palace			into the fire result; hastily property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into fire=Result
8	let	infinitive		palace				tree rules
9	burn	infinitive	palace not said here					tree rules
10	commence	past	the other servants					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
11	grumble speech: other	gerund	the other servants not said here			again		vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
12	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
13	see in a quote	infinitive		the King's bridal shirt				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shirt=Stimulus
14	burn in a quote	present · progressive	king				actually property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
15	hold			palace				nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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