Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 81
The other servants thereupon began to murmur, saying, "See, now he is burning the King's bridal shirt!"
Who acts: other servants, John · What happens: begin, murmur, say, see, burn · To what, where: bridal shirt · 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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 servants | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 servants | amod |
| 3 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 began | nsubj |
| 4 | thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 5 began | advmod |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 murmur | mark |
| 7 | murmur | murmur | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saying | punct |
| 9 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 began | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 See | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 See | punct |
| 12 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 saying | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 burning | punct |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 burning | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 burning | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 burning | aux |
| 17 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 See | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 shirt | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 King | case |
| 21 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 shirt | amod |
| 22 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 burning | obj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 See | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the other servants | thereupon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | murmur speech: other | to-infinitive | the other servants not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: express | gerund | the other servants not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | burn in a quote | present · progressive | John | the King's bridal shirt | now | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shirt=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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