Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 53

Scarcely, however, had he tasted the bitter sea-water when he became worse even than he was before; and then both the elder sons came in, and blamed the youngest for what they had done; and said that he wanted to poison their father, but that they had found the Water of Life, and had brought it with them.

Who acts: brother, elder sons, sons · What happens: have, taste, become, be, come in, blame · To what, where: bitter sea water, youngest, father, 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 (brother, elder sons, sons), 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	Scarcely	scarcely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 had	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Scarcely	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	5 had	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tasted	nsubj
7	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
9	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 water	amod
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 water	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 sea	punct
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tasted	obj
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 became	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 became	nsubj
15	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tasted	advcl
16	worse	badly	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 became	advmod
17	even	even	ADV	_	21 before	advmod
18	than	than	SCONJ	_	21 before	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 before	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 before	cop
21	before	before	ADV	_	16 worse	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 came	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 sons	advmod
25	both	both	CCONJ	_	28 sons	cc:preconj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sons	det
27	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 sons	amod
28	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	parataxis
30	in	in	ADV	_	29 came	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 blamed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 blamed	cc
33	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 came	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 youngest	det
35	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 blamed	obj
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 what	case
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 youngest	obl
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 done	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 done	aux
40	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 what	acl:relcl
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 said	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 said	cc
43	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	parataxis
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 wanted	mark
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 wanted	nsubj
46	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 said	ccomp
47	to	to	PART	_	48 poison	mark
48	poison	poison	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 wanted	xcomp
49	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 father	nmod:poss
50	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 poison	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 found	punct
52	but	but	CCONJ	_	56 found	cc
53	that	that	SCONJ	_	56 found	mark
54	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 found	nsubj
55	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 found	aux
56	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 said	conj
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 Water	det
58	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 found	obj
59	of	of	ADP	_	60 Life	case
60	Life	Life	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 Water	nmod
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 brought	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 brought	cc
63	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 brought	aux
64	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 said	conj
65	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 brought	obj
66	with	with	ADP	_	67 them	case
67	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 brought	obl
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past			however property	tree rules
2	taste	past	brother	the bitter sea water		vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme water=Attribute
3	become	past	brother		badly property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	brother		before property	tree rules
5	come in	past	the elder sons			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	blame	past	the elder sons not said here	the youngest		vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Theme
7	do	past · perfect	sons = son			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	want	past	brother			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
10	poison not said to happen	to-infinitive	brother not said here	sons's father		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient
11	find	past · perfect	sons = son	the Water of Life		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic
12	bring	past · perfect		Water	with sons = son	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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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