Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 15

The faithful John pulled him back, and said, "I promised your father before he died that you should not see the contents of that room; it would bring great misfortunes both upon you and me."

Who acts: faithful John, I, King, you, room · What happens: pull back, say, promise, die, not see, bring · To what, where: King, father, contents, great misfortunes · 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 (faithful John, I, King, 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 John	det
2	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 John	amod
3	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pulled	nsubj
4	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pulled	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 pulled	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pulled	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 promised	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 promised	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 promised	nsubj
13	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 promised	obj
16	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 died	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 died	nsubj
18	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 promised	advcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 see	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 see	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 see	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 see	advmod
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 died	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 contents	det
25	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	23 see	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 room	case
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 room	det
28	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 contents	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 bring	punct
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 bring	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 bring	aux
32	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
33	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 misfortunes	amod
34	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 bring	obj
35	both	both	ADV	_	32 bring	advmod
36	upon	upon	ADP	_	37 you	case
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 bring	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 me	cc
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 you	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 bring	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	pull back	past	the faithful John	King			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result
2	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	promise speech: promise in a quote	past	I		your father		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent father=Theme
4	die in a quote	past	King				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	not see in a quote	should	you	the contents of that room			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer contents=Stimulus
6	bring in a quote	would	room	great misfortunes		upon you; both property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent misfortune=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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