Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 69

Whoever knows it, and tells him, will be turned to stone from his knee to his heart."

Who acts: Whoever · What happens: know, tell, turn · To what, where: shirt, King, knee · 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 (Whoever), 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	Whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knows	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tells	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tells	cc
6	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 knows	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tells	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 turned	punct
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 turned	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 turned	aux:pass
11	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 tells	ccomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 stone	case
13	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turned	obl
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 knee	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 knee	nmod:poss
16	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turned	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 heart	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 heart	nmod:poss
19	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turned	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 turned	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	Whoever	shirt				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	present	Whoever not said here		King			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	turn	future · passive				King's knee	to stone; to King's heart	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: to stone=Source from knee=Trajectory to heart=Destination

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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