Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 14
Then the Brother did not drink, saying, "I will wait until we come to the next spring, but then I must drink, you may say what you will; my thirst is much too great."
Who acts: Brother, we, you, thirst, my · What happens: not drink, say, wait, come, drink, be · 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, we, you, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 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 | _ | 8 saying | punct |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 drink | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wait | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 wait | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 wait | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 wait | aux |
| 13 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 drink | conj |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 come | mark |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 come | nsubj |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 wait | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 spring | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spring | det |
| 19 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 spring | amod |
| 20 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 drink | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 drink | cc |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 drink | advmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 drink | nsubj |
| 25 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 drink | aux |
| 26 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wait | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 say | punct |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 say | nsubj |
| 29 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 say | aux |
| 30 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 drink | conj |
| 31 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 30 say | obj |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 will | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 what | acl:relcl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 great | punct |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 thirst | nmod:poss |
| 36 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 great | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 great | cop |
| 38 | much | much | ADV | _ | 40 great | advmod |
| 39 | too | too | ADV | _ | 40 great | advmod |
| 40 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 drink | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 drink | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 drink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not drink | past · do-support | the Brother | then | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Brother not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wait in a quote | future | the Brother = brother | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | present | we | spring | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | drink in a quote | must | the Brother = brother | then | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert in a quote | may | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | my thirst | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | thirst in a quote | my | 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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