Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 16
When he met the Dwarf, and was asked whither he was going so hurriedly, he stopped and replied, "I seek the water of life, for my Father is sick unto death." "
Who acts: youngest, Father · What happens: meet, ask, go, stop, reply, seek · To what, where: Dwarf, water · 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 (youngest, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 met | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 met | nsubj |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stopped | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Dwarf | det |
| 5 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | aux:pass |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 met | conj |
| 10 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 going | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 going | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 going | aux |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 hurriedly | advmod |
| 15 | hurriedly | hurriedly | ADV | _ | 13 going | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stopped | nsubj |
| 18 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 replied | cc |
| 20 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stopped | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 seek | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 seek | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 seek | nsubj |
| 24 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 stopped | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 water | det |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seek | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 life | case |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 water | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sick | punct |
| 30 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 34 sick | mark |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 Father | nmod:poss |
| 32 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 sick | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 sick | cop |
| 34 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 seek | parataxis |
| 35 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 36 death | case |
| 36 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sick | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 sick | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 sick | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | youngest = young | the Dwarf | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past · passive | youngest = young not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | past · progressive | youngest = young | hurriedly, whither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stop | past | youngest = young | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | reply speech: assert | past | youngest = young not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | seek in a quote | present | youngest = young | the water of life | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | my Father | unto death; sick property | tree rules |
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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