Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 29
But he went to sleep, and when he awoke it struck the quarter to twelve, and the sound made him hurry to the fountain, from which he took some water in a cup which stood near.
Who acts: Prince, bed, sound, cup · What happens: go, sleep, awake, strike, make, hurry · To what, where: quarter, Prince, fountain, water, cup
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, bed, sound, cup), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 sleep | mark |
| 5 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 struck | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 struck | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 awoke | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 awoke | nsubj |
| 10 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 struck | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 struck | nsubj |
| 12 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 quarter | det |
| 14 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 twelve | case |
| 16 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 struck | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 made | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sound | det |
| 20 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | nsubj |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 struck | parataxis |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 made | obj |
| 23 | hurry | hurry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 made | xcomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 fountain | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fountain | det |
| 26 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hurry | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 took | punct |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 which | case |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 took | obl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 took | nsubj |
| 31 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 made | conj |
| 32 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 water | det |
| 33 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 took | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 cup | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 cup | det |
| 36 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 took | obl |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 stood | nsubj |
| 38 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 cup | acl:relcl |
| 39 | near | near | ADV | _ | 38 stood | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Prince | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | awake | past | Prince | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | strike | past | bed | the quarter | to twelve result | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent quarter=Patient to twelve=Result | |||
| 5 | make | past | the sound | Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | hurry | infinitive | Prince not said here | the fountain | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to fountain=Destination | ||||
| 7 | take | past | Prince | some water | a cup | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from which=Initial_Location | |||
| 8 | stand | past | a cup | near property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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