Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 23

Then hasten and fetch some of the water of life before it strikes twelve, for then the door will shut again, and you will be imprisoned."

Who acts: you, water, door · What happens: hasten, fetch, strike, shut, imprison · To what, where: some, twelve, you

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, water, door), 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	2 hasten	advmod
2	hasten	hasten	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fetch	cc
4	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 hasten	conj
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 fetch	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 some	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 life	case
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 water	nmod
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 strikes	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 strikes	nsubj
13	strikes	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fetch	advcl
14	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 strikes	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 shut	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 shut	mark
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 shut	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 door	det
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shut	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 shut	aux
21	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 strikes	conj
22	again	again	ADV	_	21 shut	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 imprisoned	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 imprisoned	cc
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 imprisoned	nsubj:pass
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 imprisoned	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 imprisoned	aux:pass
28	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hasten	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hasten	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 hasten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	hasten	imperative	you not said here		then	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	fetch	infinitive	you not said here	some		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme
3	strike	present	water	twelve		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient
4	shut	future	the door		then; again	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	imprison	future · passive		you		vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=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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