Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 12

The young King remarked, however, that the faithful John always passed by one door, so he asked, "Why do you not open that one?" "

Who acts: young King, faithful John, John, you · What happens: remark, pass, ask, not open · To what, where: one · 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 (young King, faithful John, John, you), 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	3 King	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 King	amod
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 remarked	nsubj
4	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 however	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	4 remarked	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 passed	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 passed	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 John	det
10	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 John	amod
11	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 passed	nsubj
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 passed	advmod
13	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 remarked	conj
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 door	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 door	nummod
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 passed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 asked	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 asked	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 asked	nsubj
20	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 remarked	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 open	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 open	punct
23	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	27 open	advmod
24	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 open	aux
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 open	nsubj
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 open	advmod
27	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 asked	ccomp
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 open	obj
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	27 open	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 open	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 remarked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remark speech: assert	participle	the young King		however property	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pass	participle	the faithful John		by one door; always property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by door=Location
3	ask speech: ask	past	John			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not open in a quote	present · do-support	you	that one		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=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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