Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 15

Now, when the second Son did not return, the youngest begged leave to go and fetch the water, and the King was obliged at last to give his consent.

Who acts: second Son, youngest, King · What happens: not return, beg, leave, go, fetch, oblige · To what, where: water, King, last, consent

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 (second Son, youngest, King), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 begged	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 return	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Son	det
5	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 Son	amod
6	Son	Son	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 return	nsubj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 return	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 return	advmod
9	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Now	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 youngest	det
12	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 begged	nsubj
13	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 begged	xcomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 go	mark
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 leave	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fetch	cc
18	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 go	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 water	det
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fetch	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 obliged	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 obliged	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 King	det
24	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 obliged	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 obliged	aux:pass
26	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 begged	conj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 last	case
28	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 obliged	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 give	mark
30	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 obliged	advcl
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 consent	nmod:poss
32	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 give	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	not return	past · do-support	the second Son				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	beg speech: request	participle	the youngest			now	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	leave not said to happen	infinitive	the youngest not said here				tree rules
4	go	to-infinitive	the youngest not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fetch	infinitive	the youngest not said here	the water			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
6	oblige	past · passive		the King	last		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	give	to-infinitive		King's consent			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Theme
8	consent		King				nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=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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