Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 2
This king once fell very ill--so ill that nobody thought he could live.
Who acts: king, nobody · What happens: fall, think, live · 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, nobody), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 fell | advmod |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 ill | advmod |
| 6 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fell | xcomp |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 ill | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 ill | advmod |
| 9 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fell | advcl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 thought | mark |
| 11 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ill | advcl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 live | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 live | aux |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | this king | ill, once property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | nobody | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | live | could | king | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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