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title: The faithful John lifted him up and carried him to his bed, and thou… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The faithful John lifted him up and carried him to his bed, and thought with great concern, "Mercy on us! the misfortune has happened; what will come of it?" and he gave the young King wine until he came to himself. Who acts: faithful John, misfortune, John. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 20

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The faithful John lifted him up and carried him to his bed, and thought with great concern, "Mercy on us! the misfortune has happened; what will come of it?" and he gave the young King wine until he came to himself.

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**Who acts:** faithful John, misfortune, John · **What happens:** lift up, carry, think, happen, come, give · **To what, where:** portrait, John, bed, great concern, young King wine · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, misfortune, John), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:16:20
# text = The faithful John lifted him up and carried him to his bed, and thought with great concern, "Mercy on us! the misfortune has happened; what will come of it?" and he gave the young King wine until he came to himself.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	concern	concern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	32	nsubj	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
44	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	advcl	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift up** | past | the faithful John | portrait |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | past | the faithful John *not said here* | John |  | John's bed |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to bed=Destination |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the faithful John *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with great concern | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **happen** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the misfortune | great concern *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | future |  |  |  |  |  | of door | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of it=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **give** | past | John | the young King wine |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Theme |
| 7 | **come** | past | John |  | John |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to himself=Initial\_Location |

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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.

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**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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