Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 55
Then they went to their brother, and laughed at him, and said, ‘Well, brother, you found the Water of Life, did you?
Who acts: sons, you · What happens: go, laugh, say, find, do · To what, where: Water, you · 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 (sons, you), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 brother | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 laughed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 laughed | cc |
| 9 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 laughed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Well | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 Well | punct |
| 17 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 19 brother | discourse |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Well | punct |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 found | punct |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 found | nsubj |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Water | det |
| 24 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 found | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Life | case |
| 26 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Water | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 did | punct |
| 28 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 found | conj |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 did | obj |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | sons = son | then | to sons's brother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to brother=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | laugh | past | sons = son not said here | at brother | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | sons = son not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | find | past | you | the Water of Life | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic | ||||
| 5 | do | past | you not said here | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |
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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