Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 76
Capital!" said the King, "this shall carry me to my castle," and he tried to mount; but the faithful John came straight up, and swinging himself quickly on, drew the firearms out of the holster and shot the horse dead.
Who acts: Capital, King, faithful John · What happens: say, carry, try, mount, come, swing · To what, where: me, castle, John, firearms, holster, horse · 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 (Capital, King, faithful 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 | Capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Capital | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Capital | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 carry | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 carry | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 carry | punct |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 carry | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 carry | aux |
| 11 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 carry | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 castle | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 castle | nmod:poss |
| 15 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carry | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 carry | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 carry | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tried | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 tried | nsubj |
| 20 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 mount | mark |
| 22 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 tried | xcomp |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 came | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 came | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 John | det |
| 26 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 John | amod |
| 27 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 came | nsubj |
| 28 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 29 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 30 up | advmod |
| 30 | up | up | ADV | _ | 28 came | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 drew | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 drew | cc |
| 33 | swinging | swing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 drew | advcl |
| 34 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 swinging | obj |
| 35 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 36 on | advmod |
| 36 | on | on | ADV | _ | 33 swinging | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 swinging | punct |
| 38 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 came | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 firearms | det |
| 40 | firearms | firearm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 drew | obj |
| 41 | out | out | ADP | _ | 44 holster | case |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 holster | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 holster | det |
| 44 | holster | holster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 drew | obl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 shot | cc |
| 46 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 came | conj |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 horse | det |
| 48 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 shot | obj |
| 49 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 shot | xcomp |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Capital | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | carry | shall | the King | me | my castle | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to castle=Destination | |||
| 3 | try in a quote | past | King | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | mount not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | King not said here | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | come in a quote | past | the faithful John | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | swing in a quote | gerund | John | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||||
| 7 | draw in a quote | past | the faithful John not said here | the firearms | the holster | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent firearm=Theme out holster=Initial_Location | |||
| 8 | shoot in a quote | past | the faithful John not said here | the horse | dead property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
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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