Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 87

Well," answered the man, "for once we will try it."

Who acts: we · What happens: answer, try · To what, where: man, horse

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 (we), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 answered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 try	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 try	obl
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 try	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 try	aux
13	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 try	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 try	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert in a quote	past	we not said here		the man				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality
2	try	future	we	horse					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Theme for once=Attribute

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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