Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 15

Meantime the old king was lingering on in daily hope of his son’s return, till at last the second son said, ‘Father, I will go in search of the Water of Life.’

Who acts: Meantime, second son, I, return, son · What happens: linger on, say, go, hope, return, search · To what, where: daily hope, search, Water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Meantime, second son, I, return), 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	Meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lingering	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 king	amod
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lingering	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lingering	aux
6	lingering	linger	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 lingering	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 hope	case
9	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hope	amod
10	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lingering	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 return	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 son	nmod:poss
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 return	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 son	case
15	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hope	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 last	punct
17	till	till	ADP	_	19 last	case
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 last	case
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lingering	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 son	det
21	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 son	amod
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 last	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 go	punct
25	‘	‘	ADP	_	26 Father	case
26	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 go	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Father	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 go	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 go	aux
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 search	case
32	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 go	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 Water	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Water	det
35	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 search	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Life	case
37	Life	Life	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Water	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 go	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 lingering	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	linger on	past · progressive	Meantime		daily hope of king's son's return		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hope=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the second son				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	future	I		search of the Water of Life	‘ Father	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location
4	hope		king's son's return				nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent
5	return		king's son				nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
6	search			the Water of Life			nom search «act transitive»: of=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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