Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 36

Then she told him that the well that held the Water of Life was in the palace gardens; and bade him make haste, and draw what he wanted before the clock struck twelve.

Who acts: lady, well, bade, door, clock · What happens: tell, hold, make, draw, want, strike · To what, where: door, Water, haste, twelve · 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 (lady, well, bade, door), 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	3 told	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 well	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 well	det
7	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	ccomp
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 held	nsubj
9	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 well	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Water	det
11	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 held	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Life	case
13	Life	Life	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Water	nmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 Water	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 gardens	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gardens	det
17	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gardens	compound
18	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 was	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 make	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 make	cc
21	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 make	nsubj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bade	obj
23	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 told	ccomp
24	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 make	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 draw	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 draw	cc
27	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 make	conj
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 wanted	obj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 wanted	nsubj
30	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 draw	ccomp
31	before	before	SCONJ	_	34 struck	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 clock	det
33	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 struck	nsubj
34	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 wanted	advcl
35	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 struck	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	lady		door	then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hold	past	the well	the Water of Life			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
3	make	present	bade	haste			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product
4	draw	infinitive	bade not said here				tree rules
5	want	past	door				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
6	strike	past	the clock	twelve			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=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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