Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 10
Meanwhile the sick King waited a long while for him, but he did not come; and the second Son asked leave to go too and seek the water, for he thought to himself, "If my Brother is dead the kingdom comes to me."
Who acts: sick King, King, second Son, Brother · What happens: wait, not come, ask, leave, go, seek · To what, where: water, Prince, King · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sick King, King, second Son, Brother), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 waited | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 3 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 King | amod |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 waited | nsubj |
| 5 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 while | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 while | amod |
| 8 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waited | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 waited | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 come | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 come | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 come | advmod |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 waited | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 asked | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 asked | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Son | det |
| 20 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 Son | amod |
| 21 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 asked | nsubj |
| 22 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 waited | parataxis |
| 23 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 asked | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 go | mark |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 leave | xcomp |
| 26 | too | too | ADV | _ | 25 go | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 seek | cc |
| 28 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 go | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 water | det |
| 30 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 seek | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 thought | punct |
| 32 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 34 thought | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 thought | nsubj |
| 34 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 asked | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 himself | case |
| 36 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 34 thought | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 dead | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 dead | punct |
| 39 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 43 dead | mark |
| 40 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 Brother | nmod:poss |
| 41 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 dead | nsubj |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 dead | cop |
| 43 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 comes | csubj |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 kingdom | det |
| 45 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 dead | nsubj |
| 46 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 thought | ccomp |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 me | case |
| 48 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 comes | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 waited | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the sick King | while | for Prince; meanwhile property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | not come | past · do-support | King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the second Son | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | leave | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | seek | infinitive | the water | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||||
| 7 | think speech: other | past | King | Prince | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 8 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | my Brother | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | come in a quote | present | King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location |
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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