Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 43
Presently she stepped on board, and the King conducted her below; but the faithful John remained on deck by the steersman, and told him to unmoor the ship and put on all the sail he could, that it might fly as a bird through the air.
Who acts: daughter, King, faithful John, ship · What happens: step, conduct, remain, tell, unmoor, put · To what, where: board, daughter, deck, King, ship, sail · 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 (daughter, King, faithful John, ship), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 stepped | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stepped | nsubj |
| 3 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 board | case |
| 5 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stepped | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 conducted | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 conducted | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 conducted | nsubj |
| 10 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stepped | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 conducted | obj |
| 12 | below | below | ADV | _ | 10 conducted | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 remained | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 remained | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 John | det |
| 16 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 John | amod |
| 17 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 remained | nsubj |
| 18 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stepped | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 deck | case |
| 20 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remained | obl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 steersman | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 steersman | det |
| 23 | steersman | steersman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remained | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 told | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 told | cc |
| 26 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stepped | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 told | iobj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 unmoor | mark |
| 29 | unmoor | unmoor | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 told | xcomp |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 ship | det |
| 31 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 unmoor | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 put | cc |
| 33 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 unmoor | conj |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 sail | case |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 sail | det:predet |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 sail | det |
| 37 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 put | obl |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 could | nsubj |
| 39 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 sail | acl:relcl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 fly | punct |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 fly | mark |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 fly | nsubj |
| 43 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 fly | aux |
| 44 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 unmoor | conj |
| 45 | as | as | ADP | _ | 47 bird | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 bird | det |
| 47 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 fly | obl |
| 48 | through | through | ADP | _ | 50 air | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 air | det |
| 50 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 fly | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | daughter | board | presently property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on board=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | conduct | past | the King | daughter | below property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | remain | past | the faithful John | deck | by the steersman | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on deck=Location | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | daughter not said here | King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | unmoor not said to happen | to-infinitive | daughter not said here | the ship | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | put | participle | daughter not said here | all sail | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on sail=Destination | ||||
| 7 | fly | might | ship | the air | as a bird | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=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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