Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 96
Once, when the Queen was in church, and the two children at home playing by their father's side, he looked up at the stone statue full of sorrow, and exclaimed with a sigh, "Ah, could I restore you to life, my faithful John!"
Who acts: Queen, two children, father · What happens: be, play, look up, exclaim, restore · To what, where: church, you, life · 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 (Queen, two children, father), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 church | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 church | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 church | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 church | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 church | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 church | case |
| 8 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 looked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 children | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 children | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 children | det |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 children | nummod |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 church | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 home | case |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 children | nmod |
| 16 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 children | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 side | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 side | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 father | case |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 playing | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 church | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 looked | nsubj |
| 24 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 looked | compound:prt |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 statue | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 statue | det |
| 28 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 statue | compound |
| 29 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 looked | obl |
| 30 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 statue | amod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 sorrow | case |
| 32 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 full | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 exclaimed | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 exclaimed | cc |
| 35 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 looked | conj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 sigh | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 sigh | det |
| 38 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 exclaimed | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 restore | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 restore | punct |
| 41 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 45 restore | discourse |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Ah | punct |
| 43 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 restore | aux |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 restore | nsubj |
| 45 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 exclaimed | conj |
| 46 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 restore | obj |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 life | case |
| 48 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 restore | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 John | punct |
| 50 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 John | nmod:poss |
| 51 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 John | amod |
| 52 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 exclaimed | obl:agent |
| 53 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 52 John | punct |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 John | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Queen | church and the two children at home | once property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | play | gerund | the two children at home not said here | by children's father's side | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | look up | past | father | at the stone statue | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at statue=Theme | ||||
| 4 | exclaim speech: express | participle | father not said here | with a sigh | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | restore in a quote | could | father | you | life | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Theme to life=Recipient |
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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