Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 42

Then the prince thought to himself, ‘I cannot go home to my father without my brothers’; so he said, ‘My dear friend, cannot you tell me where my two brothers are, who set out in search of the Water of Life before me, and never came back?’

Who acts: prince, I, door, you, two brothers · What happens: think, not go, say, not tell, be, set out · To what, where: door, me, search, 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, door, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 thought	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 himself	case
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 thought	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 go	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 go	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 go	advmod
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	ccomp
13	home	home	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 father	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
17	without	without	ADP	_	19 brothers	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 brothers	nmod:poss
19	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 go	obl
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 said	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 friend	punct
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 friend	punct
27	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 friend	nmod:poss
28	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 friend	amod
29	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 tell	punct
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 tell	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 tell	advmod
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 tell	nsubj
34	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 said	ccomp
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 tell	iobj
36	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	40 are	advmod
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 brothers	nmod:poss
38	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 brothers	nummod
39	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 are	nsubj
40	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 tell	advcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 set	punct
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 set	nsubj
43	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 tell	conj
44	out	out	ADP	_	43 set	compound:prt
45	in	in	ADP	_	46 search	case
46	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 set	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 Water	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Water	det
49	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 search	nmod
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 Life	case
51	Life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 Water	nmod
52	before	before	ADP	_	53 me	case
53	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 set	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 came	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 came	cc
56	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	57 came	advmod
57	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	parataxis
58	back	back	ADV	_	57 came	advmod
59	?	?	PUNCT	_	57 came	punct
60	’	'	PUNCT	_	57 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the prince		door		then		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not go	can	I					to my father; without my brothers; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	door						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not tell speech: assert	can	you		me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	does	present	my two brothers						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	set out	past				search of the Water of Life	before me		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not come back	past							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	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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