Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 3

As soon as John came to the bedside, the King said, "My faithful John, I feel that my end approaches, and I have no other care than about my son, who is still so young that he cannot always guide himself aright.

Who acts: John, King, end, son · What happens: come, say, feel, approach, have, be · To what, where: bedside, other care, John · 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 (John, King, end, son), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 came	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
4	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 bedside	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bedside	det
8	bedside	bedside	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 John	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 John	punct
15	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 John	nmod:poss
16	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 John	amod
17	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 feel	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 feel	nsubj
20	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 approaches	mark
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 end	nmod:poss
23	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 approaches	nsubj
24	approaches	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 feel	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 have	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
28	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 care	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 care	amod
31	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obj
32	than	than	ADP	_	35 son	case
33	about	about	ADP	_	35 son	case
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 son	nmod:poss
35	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 care	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 young	punct
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 young	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 young	cop
39	still	still	ADV	_	41 young	advmod
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 young	advmod
41	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 son	amod
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 guide	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 guide	nsubj
44	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 guide	aux
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 guide	advmod
46	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	47 guide	advmod
47	guide	guide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 young	advcl
48	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	47 guide	obj
49	aright	aright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 guide	xcomp
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	John		the bedside		soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bedside=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the King					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	feel in a quote	present	the King = king					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	approach in a quote	present	my end					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have in a quote	present	the King = king	no other care			than my son	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Patient
6	is in a quote	present	my son			still	young property	tree rules
7	not guide in a quote	can	John	John			always, aright property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/16/3/