Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 8

The faithful John pressed his master's hand again in token of assent, and soon after the King laid his head upon the pillow and expired.

Who acts: faithful John, King · What happens: press, lay · To what, where: hand, token, head, pillow

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 (faithful John, King), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 John	det
2	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 John	amod
3	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pressed	nsubj
4	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 master	nmod:poss
6	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hand	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 master	case
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pressed	obj
9	again	again	ADV	_	4 pressed	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 token	case
11	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pressed	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 assent	case
13	assent	assent	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 token	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 laid	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 laid	cc
16	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 laid	advmod
17	after	after	SCONJ	_	20 laid	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 King	det
19	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 laid	nsubj
20	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pressed	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 head	nmod:poss
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 laid	obj
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 pillow	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pillow	det
25	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 laid	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 expired	cc
27	expired	expired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pillow	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	past	the faithful John	John's master's hand		token of assent	again		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	lay	past	the King	King's head		the pillow		soon property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme upon pillow=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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