Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 34
They went out before me in search of the water of life, and did not return." "
Who acts: sword · What happens: go out, not return, search · To what, where: search, water
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 (sword), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 search | case |
| 7 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 search | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 water | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 return | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 return | cc |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 return | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 return | advmod |
| 17 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 return | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 return | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | sword | search of the water of life | before me | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | not return | past · do-support | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | search | the water of life | nom search «act 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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