Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 100

The King was terrified when he heard that he must himself kill his two dear children; but he remembered his servant's great fidelity, and how the faithful John had died for him, and drawing his sword he cut off the heads of both his children with his own hand.

Who acts: King, faithful John · What happens: be, hear, kill, remember, die, draw · To what, where: two dear children, great fidelity, sword, heads · 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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 terrified	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 terrified	cop
4	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 heard	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 terrified	advcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 kill	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 kill	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 kill	aux
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 kill	nsubj
12	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 heard	ccomp
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 children	nmod:poss
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 children	nummod
15	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 children	amod
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 kill	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 remembered	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 remembered	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 remembered	nsubj
20	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 terrified	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 servant	nmod:poss
22	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fidelity	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 servant	case
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fidelity	amod
25	fidelity	fidelity	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 remembered	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 died	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 died	cc
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 died	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 John	det
30	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 John	amod
31	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 died	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 died	aux
33	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 remembered	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 died	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 cut	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 cut	cc
38	drawing	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 cut	csubj
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 sword	nmod:poss
40	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 drawing	obj
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 cut	nsubj
42	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 terrified	conj
43	off	off	ADP	_	42 cut	compound:prt
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 heads	det
45	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 cut	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	49 children	case
47	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	49 children	det
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 children	nmod:poss
49	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 heads	nmod
50	with	with	ADP	_	53 hand	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 hand	nmod:poss
52	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 hand	amod
53	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 cut	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 terrified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King		terrified property	tree rules
2	hear	past	King			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	kill	must	King	King's two dear children		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
4	remember	past	King	King's servant's great fidelity		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent fidelity=Theme
5	die	past · perfect	the faithful John		for King	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for he=Theme
6	draw	gerund		King's sword		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
7	cut off	past	King	the heads of King's children	with King's own hand	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality

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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