Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 74
But at last he thought, "I will save my master, even if I destroy myself."
Who acts: John · What happens: think, save, destroy · To what, where: last, master, John · 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), 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 | _ | 5 thought | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 save | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 save | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 save | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 save | aux |
| 10 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 master | nmod:poss |
| 12 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 save | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 destroy | punct |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 destroy | advmod |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 destroy | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 destroy | nsubj |
| 17 | destroy | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 save | advcl |
| 18 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 destroy | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 save | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | John | last | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | save in a quote | future | John | my master | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme | ||||
| 3 | destroy a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | John | John | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=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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