Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 44
As soon as they arrived at home the youngest Brother took his cup to the sick King, that he might drink out of it and regain his health.
Who acts: thoughts, youngest Brother, Brother · What happens: arrive, take, drink out, regain · To what, where: home, cup, sick King, health
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, youngest Brother, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 arrived | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 arrived | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Brother | det |
| 9 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 Brother | amod |
| 10 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrived | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cup | nmod:poss |
| 13 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 King | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 16 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 King | amod |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 drink | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 drink | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 drink | nsubj |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 drink | aux |
| 22 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 took | parataxis |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 drink | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 regain | cc |
| 27 | regain | regain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 drink | conj |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 health | nmod:poss |
| 29 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 regain | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | thoughts = thought | home | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | past | the youngest Brother | Brother's cup | the sick King | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cup=Theme to king=Destination | |||
| 3 | drink out | might | Brother | cup | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | regain | infinitive | Brother not said here | Brother's health | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent health=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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