Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 31
The faithful John told the King to remain in the ship, and wait for him. "
Who acts: faithful John · What happens: tell, remain, wait · To what, where: King, ship · 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), 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 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 remain | mark |
| 8 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 ship | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ship | det |
| 11 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remain | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wait | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wait | cc |
| 14 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | ccomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wait | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 wait | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the faithful John | the King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | remain not said to happen | to-infinitive | the ship | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ship=Location | |||||
| 3 | wait | infinitive | for King | vn exist-47.1 «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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