Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 5

Then John answered, "I will never leave him; I will always serve him truly, even if it costs me my life."

Who acts: John, end · What happens: answer, not leave, serve, cost · To what, where: John, life · 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 (John, end), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 answered	advmod
2	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 leave	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 leave	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 leave	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 leave	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 leave	advmod
9	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answered	ccomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 leave	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 serve	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 serve	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 serve	aux
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 serve	advmod
15	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 leave	parataxis
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 serve	obj
17	truly	truly	ADV	_	15 serve	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 costs	punct
19	even	even	ADV	_	22 costs	advmod
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 costs	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 costs	nsubj
22	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 serve	parataxis
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 costs	iobj
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 life	nmod:poss
25	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 costs	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	John			then		tree rules
2	not leave in a quote	future	John	John				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	serve in a quote	future	John	John			always, truly property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute
4	cost a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	end	my life	John			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme i=Beneficiary life=Value

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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