Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 60
They were sent by the three Kings in token of gratitude for the sword which had defeated their enemies, and the bread which had nourished their people.
Who acts: three Kings · What happens: send, defeat, nourish · To what, where: wagons, token, sword, bread
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 (three Kings), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | aux:pass |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Kings | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Kings | det |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 Kings | nummod |
| 7 | Kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 token | case |
| 9 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 gratitude | case |
| 11 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 token | nmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 sword | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sword | det |
| 14 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gratitude | nmod |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 defeated | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 defeated | aux |
| 17 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 sword | acl:relcl |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 19 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 defeated | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 nourished | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 nourished | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bread | det |
| 23 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 nourished | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 nourished | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 nourished | aux |
| 26 | nourished | nourish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sent | advcl |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 people | nmod:poss |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 nourished | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | the three Kings | wagons = wagon | token of gratitude for the sword | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in token=Destination | |||
| 2 | defeat | past · perfect · passive | the sword | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | nourish | past · perfect · passive | the bread | 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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