Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 51

Then they waited till he was fast asleep, and poured the Water of Life out of the cup, and took it for themselves, giving him bitter sea-water instead.

Who acts: armies, brother · What happens: wait, be, pour, take, give · To what, where: Water, cup, bitter sea water, brother

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, brother), 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 waited	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 waited	nsubj
3	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 asleep	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asleep	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 asleep	cop
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 asleep	advmod
8	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 waited	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 poured	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 poured	cc
11	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waited	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Water	det
13	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 poured	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Life	case
15	Life	Life	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Water	nmod
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 cup	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 cup	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cup	det
19	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 poured	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 took	cc
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waited	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 took	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 themselves	case
25	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 took	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 giving	punct
27	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 took	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 giving	iobj
29	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 water	amod
30	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 water	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 sea	punct
32	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 giving	obj
33	instead	instead	ADV	_	27 giving	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	armies = army				then		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	brother					asleep, fast property	tree rules
3	pour	past	armies = army not said here	the Water of Life		the cup			vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme out cup=Initial_Location
4	take	past	armies = army not said here	Water				for armies = army	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for themselves=Beneficiary
5	give	gerund	armies = army not said here	bitter sea water	brother			instead property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient water=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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