Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 19
Since you have behaved yourself as you ought," said the Dwarf, "and not haughtily like your false Brothers, I will give you information and show you where you may obtain the water of life.
Who acts: you, Dwarf, I · What happens: behave, say, not like, give, show, obtain · To what, where: yourself, false Brothers, information, you, 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 (you, Dwarf, I), 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 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 4 behaved | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 behaved | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 behaved | aux |
| 4 | behaved | behave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 5 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 behaved | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 ought | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 ought | nsubj |
| 8 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 behaved | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 behaved | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Dwarf | det |
| 13 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 like | cc |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 like | advmod |
| 18 | haughtily | haughtily | ADV | _ | 19 like | advmod |
| 19 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | conj |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 Brothers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Brothers | amod |
| 22 | Brothers | Brother | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 like | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 give | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 give | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 give | aux |
| 26 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 like | conj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 give | iobj |
| 28 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 give | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 show | cc |
| 30 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 give | conj |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 show | iobj |
| 32 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 obtain | advmod |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 obtain | nsubj |
| 34 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 obtain | aux |
| 35 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 show | advcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 water | det |
| 37 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 obtain | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 life | case |
| 39 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 water | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behave | present · perfect | you | yourself | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Dwarf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not like | infinitive | the Dwarf not said here | your false Brothers | haughtily property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot brother=Theme | |||
| 4 | give | future | I | information | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient information=Theme | |||
| 5 | show | infinitive | I not said here | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | obtain | may | you | the water of life | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
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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