Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 33
Thereupon John placed in a napkin some of the golden cups, stepped upon land, and went straight to the King's palace.
Who acts: John · What happens: place, step, go · To what, where: napkin, land, palace
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), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 placed | advmod |
| 2 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | nsubj |
| 3 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 napkin | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 napkin | det |
| 6 | napkin | napkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | obj |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 napkin | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 cups | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cups | det |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cups | amod |
| 11 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 some | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stepped | punct |
| 13 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 placed | conj |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 land | case |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stepped | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 placed | conj |
| 19 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 24 palace | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 palace | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 King | det |
| 22 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 palace | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 King | case |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | John | a napkin | thereupon property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent napkin=Theme | |||
| 2 | step | past | John not said here | land | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon land=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | go | past | John not said here | the King's palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location |
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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