Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 6

If he could have a draught of it he would be well again; but it is very hard to get.’

Who acts: man · What happens: have, be, get · To what, where: draught

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 (man), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 have	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 draught	det
6	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 draught	nmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 again	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 again	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 again	cop
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 again	advmod
13	again	again	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 hard	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 hard	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hard	expl
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 hard	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 hard	advmod
19	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 have	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 get	mark
21	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 hard	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	could	man	a draught of draught		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Patient
2	is	would	man		again, well property	tree rules
3	is	present	man not said here		hard property	tree rules
4	get	to-infinitive	man not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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