Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 54

While they thus went on their voyage on the high sea, it happened that the faithful John, as he sat on the deck of the ship, playing music, saw three crows in the air, who came flying toward them.

Who acts: heart, it, John, three crows · What happens: go, happen, sit, play, see, come · To what, where: voyage, deck, music, three crows, air

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 (heart, it, John, three crows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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