Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 52
Dost thou know that when I first saw the portrait of thy beauteous face I fell down in a swoon before it?"
Who acts: thou, I · What happens: know, see, fall down, portray · To what, where: portrait, beauteous face, swoon · 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 (thou, I), 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 | Dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | aux |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 saw | mark |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 saw | advmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 saw | advmod |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 portrait | det |
| 10 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 face | case |
| 12 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 face | nmod:poss |
| 13 | beauteous | beauteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 face | amod |
| 14 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 portrait | nmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 face | acl:relcl |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 fell | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 swoon | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 swoon | det |
| 20 | swoon | swoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | obl |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · do-support | thou | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | past | I | the portrait of thy beauteous face | before merchant | first property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer portrait=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | fall down | past | I | thy beauteous face not said here | a swoon | down property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient face=Result | ||
| 4 | portray | thy beauteous face | nom portrait «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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