Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 106
Then the father parted with him to the two men for a handsome bit of money. "
Who acts: father · What happens: part
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 (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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 parted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 father | det |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 parted | nsubj |
| 4 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 parted | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 men | det |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 men | nummod |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 parted | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 bit | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bit | det |
| 13 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bit | amod |
| 14 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 parted | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 money | case |
| 16 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bit | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 bit | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 bit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part | past | the father | then | with money; to the two men; for a handsome bit of money | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with he=Co-Patient |
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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