Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 106

The Queen became pale and was terrified at heart, but she said, "We are guilty of his life on account of his great fidelity."

Who acts: Queen, We · What happens: become, be, say, account · To what, where: heart, account, great fidelity · 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, We), 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 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 became	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 terrified	cc
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 terrified	cop
7	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 became	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 heart	case
9	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 terrified	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 became	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 guilty	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 guilty	punct
16	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 guilty	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 guilty	cop
18	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 life	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 life	nmod:poss
21	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 guilty	obl
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 account	case
23	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 guilty	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 fidelity	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 fidelity	nmod:poss
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fidelity	amod
27	fidelity	fidelity	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 account	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 guilty	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 guilty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	the Queen			pale property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	the Queen not said here		heart	terrified property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Queen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	We		account of John's great fidelity	of John's life; guilty property	tree rules
5	account in a quote			John's great fidelity			nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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