Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 9

Presently they found a brook, which ran trippingly over the pebbles, and the Brother would have drunk out of it, but the Sister heard how it said as it ran along, "Who drinks of me will become a tiger!"

Who acts: children, brook, Brother, Sister, forest · What happens: find, run, drink out, hear, say, run along · To what, where: brook, pebbles, forest, tiger · 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 (children, brook, Brother, Sister), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	3 found	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 brook	det
5	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ran	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 ran	nsubj
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brook	acl:relcl
9	trippingly	trippingly	ADV	_	8 ran	advmod
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 pebbles	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pebbles	det
12	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ran	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 drunk	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 drunk	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Brother	det
16	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 drunk	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 drunk	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 drunk	aux
19	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 found	conj
20	out	out	ADP	_	22 it	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 drunk	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 heard	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 heard	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Sister	det
26	Sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 heard	nsubj
27	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	conj
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 said	advmod
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	nsubj
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 heard	advcl
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 ran	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 ran	nsubj
33	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 said	advcl
34	along	along	ADV	_	33 ran	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 drinks	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 drinks	punct
37	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 drinks	nsubj
38	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 become	advcl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 me	case
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 drinks	obl
41	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 become	aux
42	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 said	ccomp
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 tiger	det
44	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 become	xcomp
45	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	children = child	a brook		presently property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brook=Topic
2	run	past	a brook		the pebbles	trippingly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over pebble=Trajectory
3	drink out	would · perfect	the Brother	forest			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	hear	past	the Sister				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	say speech: express	past	forest				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	run along	past	forest			along property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	drink in a quote	present				of forest	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of i=Source
8	become in a quote	future		a tiger			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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