Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 39
The youngest Prince went to this King and gave him the bread, with which he fed and satisfied his whole people; and then the Prince gave him the sword, wherewith he defeated and slew all his enemies, and regained peace and quiet.
Who acts: youngest Prince, Prince · What happens: go, give, feed, satisfy, defeat, slay · To what, where: bread, Prince, whole people, sword, King, enemies
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 (youngest Prince, Prince), 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 Prince | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 Prince | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 King | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gave | cc |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bread | det |
| 12 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fed | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 fed | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fed | nsubj |
| 17 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gave | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 satisfied | cc |
| 19 | satisfied | satisfy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fed | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 people | nmod:poss |
| 21 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 people | amod |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 satisfied | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 gave | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 gave | cc |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 gave | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Prince | det |
| 27 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 gave | nsubj |
| 28 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 gave | iobj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sword | det |
| 31 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gave | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 defeated | punct |
| 33 | wherewith | wherewith | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 defeated | advmod |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 defeated | nsubj |
| 35 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 gave | parataxis |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 slew | cc |
| 37 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 defeated | conj |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 enemies | det:predet |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 40 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 slew | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 regained | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 regained | cc |
| 43 | regained | regain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 gave | conj |
| 44 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 regained | obj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 quiet | cc |
| 46 | quiet | quiet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 peace | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the youngest Prince | to this King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the youngest Prince not said here | the bread | Prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bread=Theme | |||
| 3 | feed | past | Prince | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | satisfy | past | Prince not said here | Prince's whole people | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | give | past | the Prince | the sword | King | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sword=Theme | ||
| 6 | defeat | past | Prince | wherewith property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | slay | past | Prince not said here | Prince's enemies | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient | ||||
| 8 | regain | participle | the Prince not said here | peace and quiet | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme |
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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