Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 77

Then the other servants of the King, who were not on good terms with the faithful John, exclaimed, "How shameful to kill the beautiful creature, which might have borne the King to the castle!"

Who acts: other servants · What happens: not be, exclaim, kill, bear · To what, where: good terms, faithful John, beautiful creature · 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 (other servants), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 servants	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 servants	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 servants	amod
4	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 King	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 servants	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 terms	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 terms	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 terms	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 terms	advmod
12	on	on	ADV	_	13 good	advmod
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 terms	amod
14	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 servants	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 John	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 John	det
17	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 John	amod
18	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 terms	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 exclaimed	punct
20	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 John	acl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 shameful	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 shameful	punct
23	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 shameful	advmod
24	shameful	shameful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 terms	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 kill	mark
26	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 shameful	csubj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 creature	det
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 creature	amod
29	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kill	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 borne	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 borne	nsubj:pass
32	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 borne	aux
33	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 borne	aux
34	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 creature	acl:relcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 King	det
36	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 borne	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 castle	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 castle	det
39	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 borne	obl
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 shameful	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 servants	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	the other servants of the King and good terms	good terms	with the faithful John	tree rules
2	exclaim speech: express	participle		the faithful John not said here		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	kill in a quote	to-infinitive		the beautiful creature		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Theme
4	bear in a quote	might · perfect · passive		the beautiful creature	to the castle	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary king=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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