Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 87
As soon as she breathed again, she raised herself up; but the young King had witnessed everything, and not knowing why the faithful John had done this was very angry, and called out, "Throw him into prison!"
Who acts: bride, young King, faithful John, this · What happens: breathe, raise up, witness, not know, do, be · To what, where: bride, everything, John, prison · 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 (bride, young King, faithful John, this), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 breathed | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 breathed | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 breathed | nsubj |
| 5 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 breathed | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 raised | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 raised | nsubj |
| 9 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 breathed | conj |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 raised | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 raised | compound:prt |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 witnessed | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 witnessed | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 King | amod |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 witnessed | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 witnessed | aux |
| 18 | witnessed | witness | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 breathed | conj |
| 19 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 18 witnessed | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 knowing | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 knowing | cc |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 knowing | advmod |
| 23 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 witnessed | advcl |
| 24 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 done | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 John | det |
| 26 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 John | amod |
| 27 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 done | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 done | aux |
| 29 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 knowing | ccomp |
| 30 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 angry | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 angry | cop |
| 32 | very | very | ADV | _ | 33 angry | advmod |
| 33 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 done | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 called | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 called | cc |
| 36 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 witnessed | conj |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 called | compound:prt |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Throw | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 Throw | punct |
| 40 | Throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 breathed | parataxis |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 Throw | obj |
| 42 | into | into | ADP | _ | 43 prison | case |
| 43 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Throw | obl |
| 44 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 40 Throw | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 Throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | past | bride | again | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | raise up | past | bride | bride | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | ||||
| 3 | witness | past · perfect | the young King | everything | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | not know | gerund | the young King not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | do | past · perfect | the faithful John | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | past | this | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | call out speech: assert | participle | the young King not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | throw in a quote | infinitive | John | into prison result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into prison=Result |
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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