Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 47

Scarcely had he drunk a little out of the cup when the King felt his sickness leave him, and soon he was as strong and healthy as in his young days.

Who acts: Scarcely, King, sickness · What happens: have, drink, feel, leave, be · To what, where: little, cup, sickness, King

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 (Scarcely, King, sickness), 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	Scarcely	Scarcely	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drunk	nsubj
4	drunk	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 drunk	obl:unmarked
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 cup	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 cup	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cup	det
10	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drunk	obl
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 felt	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 felt	nsubj
14	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drunk	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 sickness	nmod:poss
16	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 felt	obj
17	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 felt	xcomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 leave	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 strong	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 strong	cc
21	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 strong	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 strong	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 strong	cop
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 strong	advmod
25	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 healthy	cc
27	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 strong	conj
28	as	as	ADP	_	32 days	case
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 days	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 days	nmod:poss
31	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 days	amod
32	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 healthy	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Scarcely					tree rules
2	drink	past	Scarcely	a little	the cup			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent out cup=Source
3	feel	past	the King	King's sickness				tree rules
4	leave	infinitive	King's sickness not said here	King				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	is	past	King				soon, strong property	tree rules
6	be		King not said here			day		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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