--- title: While they thus went on their voyage on the high sea, it happened th… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: While they thus went on their voyage on the high sea, it happened that the faithful John, as he sat on the deck of the ship, playing music, saw three crows in the air, who came flying toward them. Who acts: heart, it, John, three crows. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, it, John, three 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11027:16:54 # text = While they thus went on their voyage on the high sea, it happened that the faithful John, as he sat on the deck of the ship, playing music, saw three crows in the air, who came flying toward them. 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 thus thus ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 voyage voyage NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 faithful faithful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 deck deck NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 31 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 34 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 41 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 42 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 xcomp _ _ 43 toward toward ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | heart | | | heart's voyage | | on the high sea; thus *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on voyage=Location | | 2 | **happen** | past | it | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **sit** | past | John | | | the deck of the ship | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on deck=Location | | 4 | **play** | gerund | John *not said here* | music | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Theme | | 5 | **see** | past | John *not said here* | three crows | | the air | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crow=Stimulus | | 6 | **come** | past | three crows | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **fly** | gerund | three crows *not said here* | | | | | toward heart | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward they=Trajectory | | 8 | **voyage** | | heart | | | | | | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=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. - ← previous: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/16/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/16/55/) - ↑ back to [Faithful John](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/16/)