Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 3

His sons were very much grieved at their father’s sickness; and as they were walking together very mournfully in the garden of the palace, a little old man met them and asked what was the matter.

Who acts: sons, little old man · What happens: grieve, walk, meet, ask, be · To what, where: sons, sickness, garden, matter · 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 (sons, little old man), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sons	nmod:poss
2	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grieved	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grieved	aux:pass
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 grieved	advmod
6	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	11 sickness	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sickness	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 father	case
11	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grieved	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 walking	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 walking	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 walking	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 walking	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 walking	aux
17	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 grieved	conj
18	together	together	ADV	_	17 walking	advmod
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 mournfully	advmod
20	mournfully	mournfully	ADV	_	17 walking	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 garden	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 garden	det
23	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 walking	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 palace	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 palace	det
26	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 garden	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 met	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 man	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 man	amod
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 man	amod
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 met	nsubj
32	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grieved	parataxis
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 met	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 asked	cc
35	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 met	conj
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 matter	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 matter	cop
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 matter	det
39	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 asked	ccomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grieved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grieve	past · passive		king's sons	sons's father's sickness		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	walk	past · progressive	sons = son		the garden of the palace	mournfully, together property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory
3	meet	past	a little old man	sons = son			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
4	ask speech: ask	past	a little old man not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past		the matter			tree rules

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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