Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 43

Indulging these thoughts they became so envious that they consulted together how they should kill him, and one day, waiting till he was fast asleep, they poured the water out of his cup and took it for themselves, while they filled his up with bitter salt water.

Who acts: thoughts, kingdom · What happens: indulge, become, consult, kill, wait, be · To what, where: thoughts, kingdom, water, cup

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 (thoughts, kingdom), 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	Indulging	indulge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 poured	advcl
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 thoughts	det
3	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Indulging	obj
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 became	nsubj
5	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thoughts	acl:relcl
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 envious	advmod
7	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 became	xcomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 consulted	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 consulted	nsubj
10	consulted	consult	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 envious	advcl
11	together	together	ADV	_	10 consulted	advmod
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 kill	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 kill	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 kill	aux
15	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 consulted	advcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 kill	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 day	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 day	cc
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 day	nummod
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thoughts	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 waiting	punct
22	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Indulging	conj
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	27 asleep	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 asleep	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 asleep	cop
26	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 asleep	advmod
27	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 waiting	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indulging	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 poured	nsubj
30	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 water	det
32	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 poured	obj
33	out	out	ADP	_	36 cup	case
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 cup	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 cup	nmod:poss
36	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 poured	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 took	cc
38	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 poured	conj
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 took	obj
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 themselves	case
41	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 took	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 filled	punct
43	while	while	SCONJ	_	45 filled	mark
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 filled	nsubj
45	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 took	conj
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 up	nmod:poss
47	up	up	ADP	_	45 filled	compound:prt
48	with	with	ADP	_	51 water	case
49	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 water	amod
50	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 water	compound
51	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 filled	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 poured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	indulge	gerund	thoughts = thought not said here	this thoughts and one day			tree rules
2	become	past	thoughts = thought	this thoughts and one day not said here		envious property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient thought=Result
3	consult	past	thoughts = thought			together property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	kill	should	thoughts = thought	kingdom			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	wait	gerund	thoughts = thought not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	past	kingdom			asleep, fast property	tree rules
7	pour	past	thoughts = thought	the water	kingdom's cup		vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme out cup=Initial_Location
8	take	past	thoughts = thought not said here	water		for thoughts = thought	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for themselves=Beneficiary
9	fill up	past	thoughts = thought			with bitter salt water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument

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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