Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 102
Now the King was full of happiness, and as soon as he saw the Queen coming, he hid the faithful John and both the children in a great closet.
Who acts: King, Queen · What happens: be, see, come, hide · To what, where: Queen, faithful John, great closet
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, Queen), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 full | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 full | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 full | cop |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 happiness | case |
| 7 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 full | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 soon | advmod |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 saw | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 saw | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 full | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Queen | det |
| 16 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 17 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 Queen | acl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hid | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hid | nsubj |
| 20 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 saw | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 John | det |
| 22 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 John | amod |
| 23 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 hid | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 children | cc |
| 25 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 children | det |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 children | det |
| 27 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hid | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 closet | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 closet | det |
| 30 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 closet | amod |
| 31 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hid | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | now | of happiness; full property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | past | King | the Queen | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | come | gerund | the Queen not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hide | past | King | the faithful John | a great closet | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent john=Patient in closet=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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