The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 99

Then the King cried: “Oh! my most trusty John, pardon! pardon!

Who acts: King · What happens: cry · To what, where: 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), 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	4 cried	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 John	punct
7	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	12 John	discourse
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 Oh	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 John	nmod:poss
10	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 trusty	advmod
11	trusty	trusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 John	amod
12	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cried	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pardon	punct
14	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 John	conj
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 John	punct
16	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 John	appos
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the King	my trusty John and pardon			then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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