Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 103
As soon as she came in he said to her, "Have you prayed in the church?" "
Who acts: Queen, John · What happens: come, say, pray · To what, where: Queen, church · 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 (Queen, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 came | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 said | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 prayed | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 prayed | punct |
| 13 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 prayed | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 prayed | nsubj |
| 15 | prayed | pray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 church | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 church | det |
| 18 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 prayed | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 prayed | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 prayed | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Queen | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | John | Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | pray in a quote | present · perfect | Queen | the church | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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