Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 93

But the trusty John had fallen down at the last word and was turned into stone.

Who acts: trusty · What happens: fall down, turn · To what, where: last word, stone

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 (trusty), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 fallen	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trusty	det
3	trusty	trusty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fallen	nsubj
4	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 trusty	appos
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fallen	aux
6	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 fallen	compound:prt
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 word	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 word	det
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 word	amod
11	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fallen	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 turned	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 turned	aux:pass
14	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fallen	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	16 stone	case
16	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 turned	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fallen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	past · perfect	the trusty			the last word			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at word=Location
2	turn	past · passive	the trusty not said here			stone			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: into stone=Trajectory

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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