Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 45

But scarcely had he drunk a very little of the water when he became worse than before, for it was as bitter as wormwood.

Who acts: Brother, water · What happens: drink, become, be · To what, where: little

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 (Brother, water), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 drunk	cc
2	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	5 drunk	advmod
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drunk	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drunk	nsubj
5	drunk	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 little	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 little	advmod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drunk	obl:unmarked
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 little	nmod
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 became	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 became	nsubj
14	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drunk	advcl
15	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 became	xcomp
16	than	than	ADP	_	17 before	case
17	before	before	ADV	_	15 worse	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bitter	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 bitter	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bitter	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 bitter	cop
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 bitter	advmod
23	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 became	conj
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 wormwood	case
25	wormwood	wormwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bitter	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 drunk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drink	past	Brother	a little of the water	scarcely property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	become	past	Brother		bad property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	water		as wormwood; bitter property	tree rules

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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