Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 16
For he thought to himself, ‘My brother is surely dead, and the kingdom will fall to me if I find the water.’
Who acts: Meantime, brother, kingdom, I · What happens: think, be, fall, find · To what, where: Meantime, me, water
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, brother, kingdom, I), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 thought | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dead | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 thought | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 dead | punct |
| 8 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dead | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 dead | cop |
| 11 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 12 dead | advmod |
| 12 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fall | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fall | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 kingdom | det |
| 16 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fall | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 fall | aux |
| 18 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 dead | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 fall | obl |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 find | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 find | nsubj |
| 23 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 fall | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 water | det |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 find | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 dead | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Meantime | Meantime | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | My brother | dead, surely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fall | future | the kingdom | me | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to i=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | find a condition, not said to happen | present | I | the water | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic |
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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