Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 109
They did as he wished, and when Thumbling had taken leave of his father, they went away with him.
Who acts: children, Father · What happens: do, wish, thumbl, take, go away · To what, where: leave
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 (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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 wished | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wished | nsubj |
| 5 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 taken | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 taken | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 Thumbling | advmod |
| 9 | Thumbling | thumbl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 taken | aux |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 did | conj |
| 12 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taken | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 father | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leave | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 taken | conj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | children = child | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wish | past | Father | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | thumbl | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | take | past · perfect · passive | leave of Father's father | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme leave=Destination | |||||
| 5 | go away | past | children = child | with Father; away property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary |
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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