Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 5

‘I know what would,’ said the little old man; ‘it is the Water of Life.

Who acts: I, little old man, matter · What happens: know, say, be · To what, where: 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 (I, little old man, matter), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 know	ccomp
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 what	aux
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 Water	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 Water	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 Water	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 Water	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Water	det
18	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Life	case
20	Life	Life	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Water	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	the little old man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a	present	matter	the Water	of Life	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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