Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 55

He stopped playing, and listened to what they were saying to each other, for he understood them perfectly.

Who acts: John, heart · What happens: stop, play, listen, say, understand · To what, where: each, heart · 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, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stopped	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 listened	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 listened	cc
6	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	parataxis
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 what	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 listened	obl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saying	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saying	aux
11	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 what	acl:relcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 each	case
13	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	11 saying	obl
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 each	fixed
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 understood	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 understood	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 understood	nsubj
18	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 listened	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 understood	obj
20	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	18 understood	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	stop	past	John				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	play	gerund	John not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	listen	past					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past · progressive	heart		each		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient
5	understand	past	John	heart		perfectly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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