Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 42
The faithful John conducted her to the ship with great joy, and the King, when he beheld her, saw that her beauty was still greater than the picture had represented, and thought nothing else but that his heart would jump out of his mouth.
Who acts: faithful John, King, beauty, heart · What happens: conduct, behold, see, be, represent, think · To what, where: daughter, ship, picture, nothing, mouth
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, King, beauty, heart), 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 conducted | nsubj |
| 4 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 conducted | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 ship | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ship | det |
| 8 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 conducted | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 joy | case |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 joy | amod |
| 11 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ship | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 beheld | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 beheld | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 beheld | nsubj |
| 19 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 King | acl:relcl |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 beheld | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 King | punct |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 conducted | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 greater | mark |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 25 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 greater | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 greater | cop |
| 27 | still | still | ADV | _ | 28 greater | advmod |
| 28 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 saw | xcomp |
| 29 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 33 represented | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 picture | det |
| 31 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 represented | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 represented | aux |
| 33 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 greater | advcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 thought | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 thought | cc |
| 36 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 saw | advcl |
| 37 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 36 thought | obj |
| 38 | else | else | ADV | _ | 37 nothing | advmod |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 jump | cc |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 jump | mark |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 heart | nmod:poss |
| 42 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 jump | nsubj |
| 43 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 jump | aux |
| 44 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 nothing | conj |
| 45 | out | out | ADP | _ | 48 mouth | case |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 mouth | case |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 48 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 jump | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 conducted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conduct | past | the faithful John | daughter | the ship with great joy | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to ship=Destination | |||
| 2 | behold | past | King | daughter | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | past | the King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | daughter's beauty | still | great property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | represent | past · perfect · passive | the picture | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | the King not said here | nothing | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme | ||||
| 7 | jump out | would | King's heart | King's mouth | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mouth=Trajectory |
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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