Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 91

Then the faithful John replied, "I have been unrighteously judged, and have always been true to you"; and he narrated the conversation of the crows which he heard at sea; and how, in order to save his master, he was obliged to do all he had done.

Who acts: faithful John, John, crows · What happens: reply, judge, be, narrate, hear, save · To what, where: faithful John, you, conversation, crows, sea, master · 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 (faithful John, John, crows), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 replied	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 replied	nsubj
5	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 judged	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 judged	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 judged	nsubj:pass
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 judged	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 judged	aux:pass
11	unrighteously	unrighteously	ADV	_	12 judged	advmod
12	judged	judge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 replied	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 true	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 true	cc
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 true	aux
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 true	advmod
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 true	cop
18	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 judged	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 you	case
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 true	obl
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 true	punct
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 narrated	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 narrated	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 narrated	nsubj
25	narrated	narrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 replied	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 conversation	det
27	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 narrated	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 crows	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 crows	det
30	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 conversation	nmod
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 heard	obj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 heard	nsubj
33	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 crows	acl:relcl
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 sea	case
35	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heard	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 save	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 save	cc
38	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	43 save	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 how	punct
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 order	case
41	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 how	obl
42	to	to	PART	_	43 save	mark
43	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 replied	advcl
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 master	nmod:poss
45	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 save	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 obliged	punct
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 obliged	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 obliged	aux:pass
49	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 save	advcl
50	to	to	PART	_	51 do	mark
51	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 obliged	xcomp
52	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	51 do	obj
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 done	nsubj
54	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 done	aux
55	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	52 all	acl:relcl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the faithful John				then		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	judge in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the faithful John = john				unrighteously property	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value
3	is in a quote	present · perfect			you			always, true property	tree rules
4	narrate speech: other	past	John	the conversation of the crows					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conversation=Topic
5	hear	past	John	the crows		sea			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
6	save	to-infinitive	the faithful John not said here	John's master					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme
7	oblige	past · passive		John					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
8	do	to-infinitive		all					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
9	do	past · perfect	John						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	converse		the crows						nom conversation «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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