Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 6
So the old King was comforted, and said, "Now I can die in peace.
Who acts: I · What happens: comfort, say, die · To what, where: old King · 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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 comforted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 King | amod |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 comforted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 comforted | aux:pass |
| 6 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 comforted | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 die | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 die | punct |
| 12 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 die | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 die | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 die | aux |
| 15 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 peace | case |
| 17 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 die | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 comforted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comfort | past · passive | the old King | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | die in a quote | can | I | now | in peace | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in peace=Attribute |
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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