Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 54

He no sooner began to drink of what they brought him, than he felt his sickness leave him, and was as strong and well as in his younger days.

Who acts: brother, sons, sickness · What happens: begin, drink, bring, feel, leave, be · To what, where: brother, sickness

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, sons, sickness), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 began	nsubj
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	1 He	conj
3	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 began	advmod
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 drink	mark
6	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 what	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 drink	obl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 brought	nsubj
10	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 what	acl:relcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 brought	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 felt	punct
13	than	than	SCONJ	_	15 felt	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 felt	nsubj
15	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sickness	nmod:poss
17	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 felt	obj
18	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 felt	xcomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 leave	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 strong	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 strong	cc
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 strong	cop
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 strong	advmod
24	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 felt	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 well	cc
26	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 strong	conj
27	as	as	ADP	_	31 days	case
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 days	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 days	nmod:poss
30	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 days	amod
31	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 strong	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	brother				soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	drink	to-infinitive	brother not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of what=Source
3	bring	past	sons = son		brother			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
4	feel	past	brother	brother's sickness				tree rules
5	leave	infinitive	brother's sickness not said here	brother				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	is	past	brother not said here			day	strong property	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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