Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 80
The young King went up to it and wished to take it up, but the faithful John pushed him away, and taking it up with his gloves on, bore it quickly to the fire and let it burn.
Who acts: young King, faithful John, castle · What happens: go up, wish, take up, push away, bear, let · To what, where: castle, King
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 (young King, faithful John, castle), 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 King | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 King | amod |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 went | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wished | cc |
| 9 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 take | mark |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wished | xcomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 take | obj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 take | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pushed | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 pushed | cc |
| 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 | 19 pushed | nsubj |
| 19 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 pushed | obj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 pushed | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 taking | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 taking | cc |
| 24 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 pushed | advcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 taking | obj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 taking | compound:prt |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 gloves | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 gloves | nmod:poss |
| 29 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 taking | obl |
| 30 | on | on | ADV | _ | 24 taking | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 bore | punct |
| 32 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 bore | obj |
| 34 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 32 bore | advmod |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 fire | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 fire | det |
| 37 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bore | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 let | cc |
| 39 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 bore | conj |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 let | obj |
| 41 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 let | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | the young King | castle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | the young King not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take up not said to happen | to-infinitive | the young King not said here | castle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | push away | past | the faithful John | King | away property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 5 | take up | gerund | the faithful John not said here | castle | with King's gloves | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 6 | bear | past | castle | to the fire; quickly property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 7 | let | infinitive | castle | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | burn | infinitive | castle not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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