Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 85

So the faithful John paid great attention, and watched her countenance; all at once she grew pale, and fell as if dead to the ground.

Who acts: faithful John, all · What happens: pay, watch, grow, fall · To what, where: great attention, countenance

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, all), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 paid	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 John	det
3	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 John	amod
4	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 paid	nsubj
5	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 attention	amod
7	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 watched	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 watched	cc
10	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 paid	conj
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 countenance	nmod:poss
12	countenance	countenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 watched	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 grew	punct
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 grew	nsubj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 all	nmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 grew	nsubj
18	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 paid	conj
19	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grew	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fell	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fell	cc
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 paid	conj
23	as	as	ADP	_	25 dead	case
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 dead	mark
25	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fell	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 ground	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ground	det
28	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fell	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pay	past	the faithful John	great attention		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset
2	watch	past	the faithful John not said here	bride's countenance		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent countenance=Theme
3	grow	past	all		pale property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fall	past	the faithful John not said here		as dead; to the ground	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=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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