Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 72

But whoever knows that, and tells it, will have his whole body turned to stone, from the crown of his head to the toes of his feet."

Who acts: whoever, whole body · What happens: know, tell, have, turn, crown · To what, where: that, dance, stone, head · 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, whole body), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 knows	cc
2	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 knows	nsubj
3	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 knows	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tells	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tells	cc
7	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 knows	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tells	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tells	xcomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 body	nmod:poss
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 body	amod
14	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 turned	nsubj
15	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 have	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 stone	case
17	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 turned	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 crown	punct
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 crown	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 crown	det
21	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 head	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 crown	nmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 toes	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 toes	det
27	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 have	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 feet	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 feet	nmod:poss
30	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 toes	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	whoever	that				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	present	whoever not said here		dance			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic
3	have not said to happen	future	whoever not said here				to the toes of King's feet	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	turn	past	King's whole body			stone		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to stone=Trajectory
5	crown			King's head				nom crown «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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