Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 11
So the Brother did not drink, although his thirst was very great, and he said, "I will wait till the next brook."
Who acts: Brother, thirst · What happens: not drink, be, say, wait, thirst · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brother, thirst), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 drink | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Brother | det |
| 3 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 drink | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drink | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 drink | advmod |
| 6 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 great | punct |
| 8 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 13 great | mark |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 thirst | nmod:poss |
| 10 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 great | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 great | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 great | advmod |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 drink | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drink | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wait | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 wait | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 wait | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 wait | aux |
| 22 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 23 | till | till | ADP | _ | 26 brook | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 brook | det |
| 25 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 brook | amod |
| 26 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wait | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 wait | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not drink | past · do-support | the Brother | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | brother's thirst | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | wait in a quote | future | brother | till the next brook | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | thirst | brother | nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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