--- title: Once, when the Queen was in church, and the two children at home pla… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 (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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11027:16:96 # text = 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!" 1 Once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 3 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 playing play VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 25 up up ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 statue statue NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 sorrow sorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 exclaimed exclaim VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 sigh sigh NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 40 " " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 45 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 43 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 44 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 restore restore VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 46 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ _ 47 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 nmod:poss _ _ 51 faithful faithful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ! ! PUNCT . _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 " " PUNCT '' _ 52 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/16/95/) - next →: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/16/97/) - ↑ back to [Faithful John](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/16/)