Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 27

Then she told him where the fountain of water of life was placed, and he hastened away lest it should strike twelve ere he gained it.

Who acts: wedding, Prince, fountain · What happens: tell, place, hasten away, strike, gain · To what, where: Prince, fountain, twelve ere, ere · 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 (wedding, Prince, fountain), 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	3 told	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 placed	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fountain	det
7	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 placed	nsubj:pass
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 water	case
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fountain	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 life	case
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fountain	nmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 placed	aux:pass
13	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hastened	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hastened	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hastened	nsubj
17	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 hastened	advmod
19	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	22 strike	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 strike	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 strike	aux
22	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 hastened	advcl
23	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 ere	nummod
24	ere	ere	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 strike	obj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gained	nsubj
26	gained	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 ere	acl:relcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gained	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	wedding		Prince	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	place	past · passive		the fountain of water of life				vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme
3	hasten away	past	Prince				away property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	strike	should	fountain	twelve ere				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ere=Patient
5	gain	past	Prince	ere				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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