Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 18
So he set out and followed the same road which his brother had done, and met with the same elf, who stopped him at the same spot in the mountains, saying, as before, ‘Prince, prince, whither so fast?’
Who acts: king, brother, same elf · What happens: set out, follow, do, meet, stop, say · To what, where: same road, king, same spot, Prince · 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 (king, brother, same elf), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 followed | cc |
| 6 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 road | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 road | amod |
| 9 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 followed | obj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 done | obj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 done | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | aux |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 road | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 met | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 met | cc |
| 17 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 elf | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 elf | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 elf | amod |
| 21 | elf | elf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 met | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stopped | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 stopped | nsubj |
| 24 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 elf | acl:relcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stopped | obj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 spot | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 spot | det |
| 28 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 spot | amod |
| 29 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stopped | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 mountains | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 mountains | det |
| 32 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 stopped | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 saying | punct |
| 34 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 met | advcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 before | punct |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 before | case |
| 37 | before | before | ADV | _ | 34 saying | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 before | punct |
| 39 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 Prince | punct |
| 40 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 saying | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 prince | punct |
| 42 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Prince | appos |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 fast | punct |
| 44 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 46 fast | advmod |
| 45 | so | so | ADV | _ | 46 fast | advmod |
| 46 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 met | advmod |
| 47 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
| 48 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | follow | past | king not said here | the same road | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | king's brother | the same road | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | meet | past | king not said here | with the same elf; fast property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with elf=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | stop | past | the same elf | king | the same spot | in the mountains | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector he=Eventuality | ||
| 6 | say speech: assert | gerund | king not said here | Prince | before property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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: «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/49/18/