The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 98

So Trusty John spoke: “I am unjustly condemned, for I have always been faithful to you”; and he proceeded to relate how he had heard the ravens’ conversation on the sea, and how he had to do all he did in order to save his master.

Who acts: Trusty, ravens · What happens: speak, condemn, be, proceed, relate, hear · To what, where: Trusty, you, conversation, sea, all, master · 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 (Trusty, ravens), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 spoke	advmod
2	Trusty	Trusty	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	nsubj
3	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Trusty	flat
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 condemned	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 condemned	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 condemned	aux:pass
9	unjustly	unjustly	ADV	_	10 condemned	advmod
10	condemned	condemn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 spoke	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 faithful	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 faithful	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 faithful	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 faithful	aux
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 faithful	advmod
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 faithful	cop
17	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 condemned	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 you	case
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 faithful	obl
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 faithful	punct
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 proceeded	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 proceeded	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 proceeded	nsubj
24	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoke	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 relate	mark
26	relate	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 proceeded	xcomp
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 heard	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 heard	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 heard	aux
30	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 relate	ccomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ravens	det
32	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 conversation	nmod:poss
33	’	's	PART	_	32 ravens	case
34	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 heard	obj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 sea	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sea	det
37	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 conversation	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 had	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 had	cc
40	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	42 had	advmod
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 had	nsubj
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoke	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 do	mark
44	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 had	xcomp
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 do	obj
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 save	nsubj
47	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 save	aux
48	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	51 save	mark
49	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 in	fixed
50	to	to	PART	_	51 save	mark
51	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 all	acl:relcl
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 master	nmod:poss
53	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 save	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Trusty					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	condemn in a quote	present · passive		Trusty			unjustly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is in a quote	present · perfect	Trusty		you		always, faithful property	tree rules
4	proceed	past	Trusty					vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	relate	to-infinitive	Trusty not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	hear	past · perfect	Trusty	the ravens's conversation		the sea		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer conversation=Stimulus
7	have	past	Trusty					tree rules
8	do	to-infinitive	Trusty not said here	all				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
9	save	past · do-support	Trusty	Trusty's master				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme
10	converse		the ravens			the sea		nom conversation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent on=place

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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