Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 12

As they came to the second, the Sister heard it say, "Who drinks of me becomes a wolf!"

Who acts: pieces, Sister, thirst · What happens: come, hear, say, drink, become · To what, where: thirst, wolf · 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 (pieces, Sister, 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 came	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 becomes	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 second	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 second	det
6	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sister	det
9	Sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	obj
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 heard	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drinks	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 drinks	punct
15	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 drinks	nsubj
16	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 say	ccomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 drinks	obl
19	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 wolf	det
21	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 becomes	xcomp
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 wolf	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 wolf	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	pieces = piece		to the second	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to second=Initial_Location
2	hear	past	the Sister	thirst		tree rules
3	say speech: express	infinitive	thirst not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	drink in a quote	present			of thirst	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of i=Source
5	become in a quote	present		a wolf		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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