Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 1

Once upon a time there was a King who was so ill that everybody despaired of his life, and his three sons were very sorry, and went out into the palace gardens to weep.

Who acts: King, everybody, three sons · What happens: be, despair, go out, weep · To what, where: palace gardens

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, everybody, three sons), 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	6 was	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 went	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 ill	nsubj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 ill	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ill	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 ill	advmod
12	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 was	ccomp
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 despaired	mark
14	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 despaired	nsubj
15	despaired	despair	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ill	advcl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 life	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 life	nmod:poss
18	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 despaired	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sorry	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sorry	cc
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 sons	nmod:poss
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 sons	nummod
23	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sorry	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sorry	cop
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 sorry	advmod
26	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 despaired	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 went	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 went	cc
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	out	out	ADV	_	29 went	advmod
31	into	into	ADP	_	34 gardens	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 gardens	det
33	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gardens	compound
34	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 went	obl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 weep	mark
36	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 gardens	acl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	past		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	a King		ill property	tree rules
3	despair	past	everybody		of King's life	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	King's three sons		sorry property	tree rules
5	go out	past		the palace gardens	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	weep	to-infinitive				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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.

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