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title: After the old King had been borne to his grave, the faithful John re… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: After the old King had been borne to his grave, the faithful John related to the young King all that his father had said upon his death-bed, and declared, "All this I will certainly fulfil; I will be as true to you as I was to him, if it costs me my life." Who acts: faithful John, father, bed. A sen
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 9

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After the old King had been borne to his grave, the faithful John related to the young King all that his father had said upon his death-bed, and declared, "All this I will certainly fulfil; I will be as true to you as I was to him, if it costs me my life."

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**Who acts:** faithful John, father, bed · **What happens:** bear, relate, say, declare, fulfil, be · **To what, where:** old King, young King, this, you, life, faithful John · **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, father, bed), 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:pg11027:16:9
# text = After the old King had been borne to his grave, the faithful John related to the young King all that his father had said upon his death-bed, and declared, "All this I will certainly fulfil; I will be as true to you as I was to him, if it costs me my life."
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	related	relate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	acl:relcl	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
28	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	det	_	_
37	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	obl	_	_
38	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
44	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
45	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	cop	_	_
46	as	as	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	47	obl	_	_
50	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
51	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
57	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	costs	cost	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
59	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	58	iobj	_	_
60	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	58	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · perfect · passive |  | the old King |  |  |  | to King's grave | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **relate** | past | the faithful John |  | the young King |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | King's father |  |  |  |  | upon King's death bed | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the faithful John *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fulfil** *in a quote* | future | the faithful John *= john* |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | future | the faithful John *= john* |  | you |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the faithful John *= john* |  |  |  |  | to King | tree rules |
| 8 | **cost** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | bed | my life | the faithful John *= john* |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme i=Beneficiary life=Value |

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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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