Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 88

The next morning the trusty John was brought up for trial, and led to the gallows; and as he stood upon them, and was about to be executed, he said, "Every one condemned to die may once before his death speak.

Who acts: John · What happens: bring up, lead, stand, be, execute, say · To what, where: next morning, one · 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 (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 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brought	nsubj:pass
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trusty	det
5	trusty	trusty	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brought	nsubj:pass
6	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 trusty	appos
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 brought	aux:pass
8	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 brought	compound:prt
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 trial	case
11	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brought	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 led	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 led	cc
14	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 brought	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 gallows	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 gallows	det
17	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 led	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 stood	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stood	cc
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 stood	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stood	nsubj
22	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 led	conj
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stood	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 about	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 about	cc
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 about	cop
28	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 stood	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	31 executed	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 executed	aux:pass
31	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 about	xcomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 said	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 said	nsubj
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 led	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 speak	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	47 speak	punct
37	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	38 one	det
38	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 speak	nsubj
39	condemned	condemn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 one	acl
40	to	to	PART	_	41 die	mark
41	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 condemned	xcomp
42	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 speak	aux
43	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	47 speak	advmod
44	before	before	ADP	_	47 speak	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 speak	nmod:poss
46	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 speak	compound
47	speak	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 said	ccomp
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bring up	past · passive		the next morning	for trial	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	lead	past			to the gallows	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to gallows=Patient
3	stand	past	John		upon gallows	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon they=Location
4	is	past	John not said here		about property	tree rules
5	execute	to-infinitive · passive	John not said here			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»
6	say speech: assert	past	John			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	condemn in a quote	participle		every one not said here		vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	die in a quote	to-infinitive				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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