Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 25
The trusty servant deliberated for a long while how to set about this business, for it was very difficult to get into the presence of the King's daughter.
Who acts: trusty servant · What happens: deliberate, set, be, get · To what, where: presence
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 (trusty servant), 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 servant | det |
| 2 | trusty | trusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 servant | amod |
| 3 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 deliberated | nsubj |
| 4 | deliberated | deliberate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 long | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 long | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 deliberated | obl |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 set | mark |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 set | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 set | mark |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 deliberated | advcl |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 business | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 business | det |
| 14 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 difficult | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 difficult | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 difficult | expl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 difficult | cop |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 difficult | advmod |
| 20 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 deliberated | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 difficult | csubj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 presence | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 presence | det |
| 25 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 daughter | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 King | det |
| 28 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 King | case |
| 30 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 presence | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 deliberated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deliberate | past | the trusty servant | for a long | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | set | to-infinitive | the trusty servant not said here | about this business | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about business=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is | past | difficult property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | the presence of the King's daughter | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into presence=Destination |
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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