Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 1

Once upon a time there lived an old King, who fell very sick, and thought he was lying upon his death-bed; so he said, "Let faithful John come to me."

Who acts: old King, King, faithful John · What happens: live, fall, think, lie, say, let · To what, where: old King, death bed, faithful John, King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful 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 King, King, faithful John), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 lived	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lived	advmod
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 King	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 King	amod
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fell	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 fell	nsubj
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 King	acl:relcl
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 sick	advmod
14	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fell	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 thought	cc
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fell	conj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lying	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lying	aux
20	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 thought	ccomp
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 bed	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 bed	nmod:poss
23	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bed	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 death	punct
25	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lying	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 said	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 said	nsubj
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Let	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 Let	punct
32	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 said	ccomp
33	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 John	amod
34	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Let	obj
35	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 Let	xcomp
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 me	case
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 come	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 Let	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a old King		there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past	a old King					sick property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	a old King not said here						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	lie	past · progressive	King			King's death bed			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bed=Location
5	say speech: assert	past	King						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	let in a quote	infinitive		faithful John					tree rules
7	come in a quote	infinitive	faithful John not said here		King				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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