Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 7

Then the eldest son said, ‘I will soon find it’: and he went to the sick king, and begged that he might go in search of the Water of Life, as it was the only thing that could save him.

Who acts: eldest son, I, man, draught, only thing · What happens: say, find, go, beg, be, save · To what, where: draught, search, man, 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 (eldest son, I, man, draught), 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	5 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 son	det
3	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 son	amod
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 find	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 find	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 find	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 find	aux
10	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 find	advmod
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 find	obj
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 find	punct
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 went	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 king	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 king	det
20	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 king	amod
21	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 went	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 begged	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 begged	cc
24	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 go	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 go	nsubj
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 go	aux
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 begged	ccomp
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 search	case
30	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 Water	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Water	det
33	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 search	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 Life	case
35	Life	Life	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Water	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 thing	punct
37	as	as	ADP	_	42 thing	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 thing	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 thing	cop
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 thing	det
41	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 thing	amod
42	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 begged	obl
43	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 save	nsubj
44	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 save	aux
45	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 thing	acl:relcl
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 save	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the eldest son			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	find	future	I	draught			soon property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	go	past	man				to the sick king	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
4	beg speech: request	past	the eldest son not said here					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go	might	man		search of the Water of Life			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location
6	is	past	draught				as the only thing	tree rules
7	save	could	the only thing	man				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	search			the Water of Life				nom search «act transitive»: of=patient

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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