Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 24

And the prince said, ‘I am going in search of the Water of Life, because my father is ill, and like to die: can you help me?

Who acts: prince, I, father, you · What happens: say, go, be, like, die, help · To what, where: search, me, 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 (prince, I, father, you), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 going	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 going	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 going	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 going	aux
9	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 search	case
11	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 going	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Water	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Water	det
14	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 search	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Life	case
16	Life	Life	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Water	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ill	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 ill	mark
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ill	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 ill	cop
22	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 going	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 like	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 like	cc
25	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 die	mark
27	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 like	xcomp
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 help	punct
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 help	aux
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 help	nsubj
31	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	parataxis
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 help	obj
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the prince					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	present · progressive	I			search of the Water of Life		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location
3	is	present	my father				ill property	tree rules
4	like	present	the prince not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	die not said to happen	to-infinitive	the prince not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	help	can	you		me			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
7	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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