Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 107

Then he was very glad that she thought as he did, and going up to the closet, he unlocked it, brought out the children and the faithful John, saying, "God be praised! he is saved, and we have still our little sons"; and then he told her all that happened.

Who acts: John, Queen, we, that · What happens: be, think, do, go up, unlock, bring out · To what, where: closet, children, God, John, little sons, Queen · 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 (John, Queen, we, that), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 glad	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 glad	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 glad	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 glad	advmod
5	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 thought	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thought	nsubj
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 glad	advcl
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 did	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 did	nsubj
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thought	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 unlocked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 unlocked	cc
14	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 unlocked	advcl
15	up	up	ADV	_	14 going	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 closet	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 closet	det
18	closet	closet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 going	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 going	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 unlocked	nsubj
21	unlocked	unlock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 glad	parataxis
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 unlocked	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 brought	punct
24	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 unlocked	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 brought	compound:prt
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 children	det
27	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 brought	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 John	cc
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	27 children	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 saying	punct
33	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 brought	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 praised	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 praised	punct
36	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 praised	nsubj:pass
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 praised	aux:pass
38	praised	praise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 saying	ccomp
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	38 praised	punct
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 saved	nsubj
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 saved	aux:pass
42	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 praised	acl:relcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 have	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 have	cc
45	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 have	nsubj
46	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 praised	conj
47	still	still	ADV	_	50 sons	advmod
48	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 sons	nmod:poss
49	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 sons	amod
50	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 have	obj
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	50 sons	punct
52	;	;	PUNCT	_	56 told	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 told	cc
54	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	56 told	advmod
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 told	nsubj
56	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 glad	parataxis
57	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 told	iobj
58	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	60 happened	det:predet
59	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	60 happened	nsubj
60	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 told	ccomp
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	John			then	glad property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	Queen					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	do	past	John					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go up	gerund	John not said here				to the closet	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	unlock	past	John	closet				vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	bring out	past	John not said here	the children and the faithful John				vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent child=Patient
7	say speech: express	gerund	John not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	praise in a quote	infinitive · passive		God				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
9	save in a quote	present · passive		John				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
10	have in a quote	present	we	our little sons				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
11	tell speech: assert	past	John		Queen	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
12	happen	past	that					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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