Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 29
When all had been placed on board a ship, the faithful John put on merchant's clothes, and the King likewise, so that they might travel quite unknown.
Who acts: faithful John, things · What happens: place, put, travel · To what, where: all, ship, clothes
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, things), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 placed | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 placed | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 placed | aux:pass |
| 5 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 ship | case |
| 7 | board | board | ADP | _ | 9 ship | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ship | det |
| 9 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 placed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 John | det |
| 12 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 John | amod |
| 13 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 put | nsubj |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 placed | parataxis |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 clothes | case |
| 16 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 merchant | case |
| 18 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 put | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 likewise | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 likewise | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 King | det |
| 22 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 likewise | nsubj |
| 23 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 5 placed | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 travel | punct |
| 25 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 29 travel | mark |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 so | fixed |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 travel | nsubj |
| 28 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 travel | aux |
| 29 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 placed | advcl |
| 30 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 31 unknown | advmod |
| 31 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 travel | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · perfect · passive | all | a ship | likewise property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on ship=Destination | |||
| 2 | put | past | the faithful John | merchant's clothes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination | ||||
| 3 | travel | might | things = thing | unknown property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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