Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 46

Then they all three rode on together, and on their way home came to a country that was laid waste by war and a dreadful famine, so that it was feared all must die for want.

Who acts: armies, war, all · What happens: ride, come, lay, fear, die · To what, where: way, country, waste · 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 (armies, war, all), 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	5 rode	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rode	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 three	det
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 they	nmod
5	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 together	case
7	together	together	ADV	_	5 rode	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 came	cc
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 way	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 way	nmod:poss
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
13	home	home	ADV	_	12 way	advmod
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rode	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 country	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 country	det
17	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 laid	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 laid	aux:pass
20	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 country	acl:relcl
21	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 laid	obj
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 war	case
23	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 laid	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 famine	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 famine	det
26	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 famine	amod
27	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 war	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 feared	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	33 feared	advmod
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 feared	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 feared	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 feared	aux:pass
33	feared	fear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 came	conj
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 die	nsubj
35	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 die	aux
36	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 feared	ccomp
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 want	case
38	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 die	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	armies = army			then		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	armies = army not said here		armies's way		to a country	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location
3	lay	past · passive	war and a dreadful famine	a country				vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme waste=Destination
4	fear	past · passive		waste				tree rules
5	die	must	all				for want	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for want=Theme

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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