Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 42
After, this they went on board a ship to pass over the sea which separated them from home, and during the voyage the two elder Brothers said to one another, "Our Brother has found the water of life and we have not; therefore our Father will give the kingdom which belongs to us to him, and our fortune will be taken away."
Who acts: sword, sea, two elder Brothers, we, Father, kingdom · What happens: go, pass, separate, say, find, not have · To what, where: ship, sea, sword, one, Brother, kingdom · 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 (sword, sea, two elder Brothers, we), 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 this | case |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 this | punct |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 went | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 ship | case |
| 7 | board | board | ADP | _ | 9 ship | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ship | det |
| 9 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 pass | mark |
| 11 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | advcl |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sea | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pass | obl |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 separated | nsubj |
| 16 | separated | separate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sea | acl:relcl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 separated | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 home | case |
| 19 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 separated | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 said | cc |
| 22 | during | during | ADP | _ | 24 voyage | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 voyage | det |
| 24 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 said | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Brothers | det |
| 26 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 Brothers | nummod |
| 27 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Brothers | amod |
| 28 | Brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 said | nsubj |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 one | case |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 said | obl |
| 32 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 one | fixed |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 found | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 found | punct |
| 35 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 Brother | nmod:poss |
| 36 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 found | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 found | aux |
| 38 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 said | parataxis |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 water | det |
| 40 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 found | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 life | case |
| 42 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 water | nmod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 have | cc |
| 44 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 have | nsubj |
| 45 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 found | conj |
| 46 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 have | advmod |
| 47 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 52 give | punct |
| 48 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 50 Father | advmod |
| 49 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 Father | nmod:poss |
| 50 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 give | nsubj |
| 51 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 give | aux |
| 52 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 said | ccomp |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 kingdom | det |
| 54 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 give | obj |
| 55 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 56 belongs | nsubj |
| 56 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 54 kingdom | acl:relcl |
| 57 | to | to | ADP | _ | 58 us | case |
| 58 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 56 belongs | obl |
| 59 | to | to | ADP | _ | 60 him | case |
| 60 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 belongs | obl |
| 61 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 67 taken | punct |
| 62 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 67 taken | cc |
| 63 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 64 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 64 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 65 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 67 taken | aux |
| 66 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 67 taken | aux:pass |
| 67 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 52 give | advcl |
| 68 | away | away | ADV | _ | 67 taken | advmod |
| 69 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 52 give | punct |
| 70 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | sword | a ship | after this | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ship=Location | |||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | sword not said here | the sea | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over sea=Location | ||||
| 3 | separate | past | the sea | sword | from home | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient from home=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the two elder Brothers | one | during the voyage | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | find in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Our Brother | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme water=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | not have in a quote | present | we | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | give in a quote | future | our Father | the kingdom | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme | ||||
| 8 | belong in a quote | present | the kingdom | us | to Brother | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||
| 9 | take away in a quote | future · passive | our fortune | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/42/