The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 9

And when Trusty John had again given the King his hand upon it the old man became silent, laid his head on the pillow, and died.

Who acts: old man · What happens: give, become, lay, die · To what, where: hand, King, head, pillow

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 (old man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 given	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 had	advmod
3	Trusty	Trusty	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
4	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Trusty	flat
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 given	aux
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 had	advmod
7	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 given	obj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hand	nmod:poss
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 given	obj
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hand	nmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 became	nsubj
17	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 given	parataxis
18	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 became	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 laid	punct
20	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 became	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 head	nmod:poss
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 laid	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 pillow	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pillow	det
25	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 laid	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 died	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 died	cc
28	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 became	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past · perfect		king's hand	the King			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient hand=Theme
2	become	past	the old man				silent property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	lay	past	the old man not said here	king's head		the pillow		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on pillow=Destination
4	die	past	the old man not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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