Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 4
"I will soon find it," said the eldest Son, and, going to the sick King, he begged his permission to set out in search of the water of life, which alone could save him. "
Who acts: eldest Son, King · What happens: find, say, go, beg, set out, save · To what, where: life, permission, King, search, water · 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 (eldest Son, King), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 find | advmod |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 find | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Son | det |
| 11 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 Son | amod |
| 12 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 begged | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 begged | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 begged | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 King | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 19 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 King | amod |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 going | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 begged | nsubj |
| 23 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 permission | nmod:poss |
| 25 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 begged | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 set | mark |
| 27 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 begged | ccomp |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 set | compound:prt |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 search | case |
| 30 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 save | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 water | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 water | det |
| 33 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 search | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 life | case |
| 35 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 water | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 save | punct |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 save | nsubj |
| 38 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 37 which | advmod |
| 39 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 save | aux |
| 40 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 set | conj |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 save | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | future | the eldest Son = son | life | soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the eldest Son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | gerund | King not said here | to the sick King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | past | King | King's permission | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | set out not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | save | could | King | search of the water of life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | permit | King | nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | 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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