Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 22
When the second prince had thus been gone a long time, the youngest son said he would go and search for the Water of Life, and trusted he should soon be able to make his father well again.
Who acts: youngest son, prince · What happens: go, say, search, trust, be, make · To what, where: second prince, father · 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 (youngest son, prince), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 gone | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 prince | amod |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gone | aux |
| 6 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 8 gone | advmod |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 gone | aux:pass |
| 8 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 time | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 time | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 son | det |
| 14 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 son | amod |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 go | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | aux |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 search | cc |
| 21 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 go | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 Water | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Water | det |
| 24 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 search | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Life | case |
| 26 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Water | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 trusted | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 trusted | cc |
| 29 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 said | ccomp |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 able | nsubj |
| 31 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 able | aux |
| 32 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 able | advmod |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 able | cop |
| 34 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 trusted | advcl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 make | mark |
| 36 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 able | xcomp |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 father | nmod:poss |
| 38 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 make | obj |
| 39 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 make | advmod |
| 40 | again | again | ADV | _ | 36 make | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect · passive | the second prince | thus property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the youngest son | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go | would | prince | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | search | infinitive | prince not said here | for the Water of Life | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for water=Theme | ||||
| 5 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is | should | prince | able, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | make | to-infinitive | prince not said here | prince's father | again | well property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset father=Product |
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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