Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 17

But he had already kneeled down, and he drank of the water, and, as the first drops passed his lips, his shape took that of a fawn.

Who acts: brother, first drops, shape · What happens: kneele down, drink, pass, take · To what, where: lips, that

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, first drops, shape), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 kneeled	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kneeled	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kneeled	aux
4	already	already	ADV	_	5 kneeled	advmod
5	kneeled	kneele	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 kneeled	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 drank	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 drank	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 drank	nsubj
10	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kneeled	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 water	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drank	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 passed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 passed	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 passed	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 passed	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 drops	det
19	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 drops	amod
20	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 passed	nsubj
21	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 drank	parataxis
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 lips	nmod:poss
23	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 passed	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 took	punct
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 shape	nmod:poss
26	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	nsubj
27	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 passed	conj
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 took	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 fawn	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 fawn	det
31	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 that	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kneeled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kneele down	past · perfect	brother			tree rules
2	drink	past	brother		of the water	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of water=Source
3	pass	past	the first drops	brother's lips		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lip=Trajectory
4	take	past	brother's shape	that		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme

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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