Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 31
But he was very glad, in spite of this, that he had procured the water, and he journeyed homeward, and passed again where the Dwarf stood.
Who acts: Prince, Dwarf · What happens: be, procure, journey, pass, stand, spite · To what, where: spite, water, homeward, this
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 glad | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 glad | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 glad | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 glad | advmod |
| 5 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spite | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 spite | case |
| 8 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 glad | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 this | case |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 spite | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 procured | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 procured | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 procured | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 procured | aux |
| 15 | procured | procure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 glad | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 water | det |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 procured | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 journeyed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 journeyed | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 journeyed | nsubj |
| 21 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 glad | parataxis |
| 22 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 journeyed | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 passed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 passed | cc |
| 25 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 journeyed | conj |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 passed | advmod |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 stood | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Dwarf | det |
| 29 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 stood | nsubj |
| 30 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 passed | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Prince | spite of this | glad property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | procure | past · perfect | Prince | the water | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 3 | journey | past | Prince | homeward | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme homeward=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | pass | past | Prince not said here | again | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stand | past | the Dwarf | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | spite | this | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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