Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 24
The Prince thanked the Dwarf, and, taking the rod and bread, he set out on his journey, and as he arrived at the castle he found it as the Dwarf had said.
Who acts: Prince, Dwarf · What happens: thank, take, set out, arrive, find, say · To what, where: Dwarf, rod, journey, castle · 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 (Prince, Dwarf), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Dwarf | det |
| 5 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 set | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 taking | punct |
| 9 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 set | csubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rod | det |
| 11 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taking | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bread | cc |
| 13 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rod | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 taking | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 set | nsubj |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 set | compound:prt |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 journey | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 journey | nmod:poss |
| 20 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 arrived | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 arrived | cc |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 arrived | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 arrived | nsubj |
| 25 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | parataxis |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 castle | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 castle | det |
| 28 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 arrived | obl |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 found | nsubj |
| 30 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 arrived | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 found | obj |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 said | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Dwarf | det |
| 34 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 said | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 said | aux |
| 36 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 found | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the Prince | the Dwarf | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | the rod and bread | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=Theme | |||||
| 3 | set out | past | Prince | Prince's journey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | arrive | past | Prince | the castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | find | past | Prince | castle | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | the Dwarf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | journey | Prince | nom journey «act 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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