Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 31
Then the prince thanked his little friend with the scarlet cloak for his friendly aid, and took the wand and the bread, and went travelling on and on, over sea and over land, till he came to his journey’s end, and found everything to be as the dwarf had told him.
Who acts: prince · What happens: thank, take, go, travel on, come, find · To what, where: little friend, wand, sea, end, everything, dwarf · 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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 thanked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thanked | nsubj |
| 4 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 friend | nmod:poss |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 friend | amod |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thanked | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 cloak | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cloak | det |
| 10 | scarlet | scarlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cloak | compound |
| 11 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thanked | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 aid | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 aid | nmod:poss |
| 14 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 aid | amod |
| 15 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cloak | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thanked | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wand | det |
| 20 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bread | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bread | det |
| 23 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wand | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 took | conj |
| 27 | travelling | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 went | xcomp |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 travelling | compound:prt |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 on | cc |
| 30 | on | on | ADV | _ | 28 on | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sea | punct |
| 32 | over | over | ADP | _ | 33 sea | case |
| 33 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 land | cc |
| 35 | over | over | ADP | _ | 36 land | case |
| 36 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 came | punct |
| 38 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 40 came | mark |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 came | nsubj |
| 40 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 went | conj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 end | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 journey | nmod:poss |
| 43 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 end | nmod:poss |
| 44 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 43 journey | case |
| 45 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 came | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 found | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 found | cc |
| 48 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 took | conj |
| 49 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 48 found | obj |
| 50 | to | to | PART | _ | 56 told | mark |
| 51 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 56 told | aux:pass |
| 52 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 56 told | mark |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 dwarf | det |
| 54 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 told | nsubj:pass |
| 55 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 56 told | aux |
| 56 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 found | ccomp |
| 57 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 told | iobj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the prince | prince's little friend | then | with the scarlet cloak for prince's friendly aid | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | ||
| 2 | take | past | the wand and the bread | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | sea | over land | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | travel on | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | come | past | prince | to prince's journey's end | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | find | past | everything | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent everything=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | the dwarf | prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic | ||||
| 8 | journey | prince | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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.
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