Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 38
After this tale the three Brothers rode away together, and soon entered a province where there were war and famine raging, and the King thought he should perish, so great was his necessity.
Who acts: three Brothers, war, King, Brother · What happens: ride away, enter, be, rage, think, perish · To what, where: province, great necessity · 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 (three Brothers, war, King, Brother), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 tale | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 tale | det |
| 3 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rode | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Brothers | det |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 Brothers | nummod |
| 6 | Brothers | Brother | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 rode | nsubj |
| 7 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 rode | advmod |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 rode | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 entered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 entered | cc |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 entered | advmod |
| 13 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rode | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 province | det |
| 15 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 entered | obj |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 were | advmod |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 were | expl |
| 18 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 province | acl |
| 19 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 were | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 famine | cc |
| 21 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 war | conj |
| 22 | raging | rage | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 war | acl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 thought | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 thought | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 King | det |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 thought | nsubj |
| 27 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rode | conj |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 perish | nsubj |
| 29 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 perish | aux |
| 30 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 thought | ccomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 great | punct |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 great | advmod |
| 33 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 necessity | amod |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 necessity | cop |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 necessity | nmod:poss |
| 36 | necessity | necessity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 perish | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride away | past | the three Brothers | after this tale | away, together property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | enter | past | the three Brothers not said here | a province | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme province=Destination | |||
| 3 | be | past | war and famine | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rage | gerund | war and famine not said here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | the King | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | perish | should | Brother | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | is a | past | Brother's great necessity | tree rules |
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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