Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 3

The old Man said, "I know a means of saving him: if he drinks of the water of life it will restore him to health; but it is very difficult to find."

Who acts: old Man, a, man, life · What happens: say, know, mean, save, drink, restore · To what, where: man, health · 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 (old Man, a, man, life), 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	3 Man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Man	amod
3	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 know	nsubj
8	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 means	nsubj
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 know	ccomp
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 saving	mark
12	saving	save	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 means	ccomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saving	obj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 drinks	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 drinks	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 drinks	nsubj
17	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 water	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 water	det
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drinks	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 life	case
22	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 water	nmod
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 restore	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 restore	aux
25	restore	restore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 drinks	parataxis
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 restore	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 health	case
28	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 restore	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 difficult	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 difficult	cc
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 difficult	expl
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 difficult	cop
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 difficult	advmod
34	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	parataxis
35	to	to	PART	_	36 find	mark
36	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 difficult	csubj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 difficult	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 difficult	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old Man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know in a quote	present	the old Man = man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	mean in a quote	present	a				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	save in a quote	gerund		man			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	drink a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	man			of the water of life	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of water=Source
6	restore in a quote	future	life	man	health		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to health=Recipient
7	is in a quote	present				difficult property	tree rules
8	find in a quote	to-infinitive					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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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