Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 2

This faithful John was his affectionate servant, and was so called because he had been true to him all his lifetime.

Who acts: faithful John, affectionate servant, John · What happens: be, call · To what, where: affectionate servant, lifetime, King · 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, affectionate servant, 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 John	nsubj
2	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 John	amod
3	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 servant	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 servant	cop
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 servant	nmod:poss
6	affectionate	affectionate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 servant	amod
7	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 called	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 called	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 called	aux:pass
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 called	advmod
12	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 servant	acl:relcl
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 true	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 true	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 true	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 true	cop
17	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 called	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 true	obl
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 lifetime	det:predet
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 lifetime	nmod:poss
22	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 called	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 servant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	faithful John	John's affectionate servant			tree rules
2	call	past · passive	John's affectionate servant not said here	John's lifetime			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»
3	is	past · perfect	John		King	true property	tree rules

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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