Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 39

But the faithful John replied, "I am only the servant of a rich merchant; what I have here is nothing in comparison to those which my master has in his ship, than which nothing more delicate or costly has ever been worked in gold."

Who acts: faithful John, servant, master · What happens: reply, be, have, work · To what, where: servant, nothing, comparison, ship, gold · 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, servant, master), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 replied	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 John	det
3	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 John	amod
4	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 replied	nsubj
5	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 servant	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 servant	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 servant	nsubj
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 servant	cop
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 servant	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 servant	det
12	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 replied	ccomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 merchant	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 merchant	det
15	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 merchant	amod
16	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 servant	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 nothing	punct
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 nothing	nsubj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
20	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 what	acl:relcl
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 have	advmod
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 nothing	cop
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 servant	appos
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 comparison	case
25	comparison	comparison	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 nothing	nmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 those	case
27	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 nothing	nmod
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 those	nmod
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 master	nmod:poss
30	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 has	nsubj
31	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 nothing	parataxis
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 ship	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 ship	nmod:poss
34	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 has	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 worked	punct
36	than	than	SCONJ	_	46 worked	mark
37	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	38 nothing	det
38	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	46 worked	nsubj:pass
39	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	40 delicate	advmod
40	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 nothing	amod
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 costly	cc
42	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 delicate	conj
43	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 worked	aux
44	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	46 worked	advmod
45	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 worked	aux:pass
46	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 has	conj
47	in	in	ADP	_	48 gold	case
48	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 worked	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 nothing	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 servant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the faithful John					vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	the faithful John = john	the servant			of a rich merchant	tree rules
3	have in a quote	present	the faithful John = john		here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	the servant	nothing	comparison		to those	tree rules
5	have in a quote	present	my master		John's ship			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	work in a quote	present · perfect · passive		nothing	gold	ever		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material

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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