Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 52
When they came to their journey’s end, the youngest son brought his cup to the sick king, that he might drink and be healed.
Who acts: armies, youngest son, brother · What happens: come, bring, drink, heal, journey · To what, where: end, cup, sick king
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, youngest son, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 brought | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 journey | nmod:poss |
| 6 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 end | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 journey | case |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 son | det |
| 11 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 son | amod |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | nsubj |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 cup | nmod:poss |
| 15 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 king | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 18 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 king | amod |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 drink | punct |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 drink | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 drink | nsubj |
| 23 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 drink | aux |
| 24 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 brought | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 healed | cc |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 healed | aux:pass |
| 27 | healed | heal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 drink | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | armies = army | to armies's journey's end | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | the youngest son | brother's cup | the sick king | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cup=Theme to king=Destination | |||
| 3 | drink | might | brother | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | heal | infinitive · passive | brother not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | |||||
| 5 | journey | armies = army | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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