Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 73
The time soon came, when the eldest brother thought that he would make haste to go to the princess, and say that he was the one who had set her free, and that he should have her for his wife, and the kingdom with her.
Who acts: eldest brother, brother · What happens: come, think, make, go, say, be · To what, where: haste, one, princess · 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 brother, brother), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 came | advmod |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 thought | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 brother | det |
| 8 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 brother | amod |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 make | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | aux |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 haste | acl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 princess | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 princess | det |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 say | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 say | cc |
| 23 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | parataxis |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 one | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 one | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 one | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 one | det |
| 28 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 say | ccomp |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 set | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 set | aux |
| 31 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 one | acl:relcl |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 free | nmod:poss |
| 33 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 set | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 have | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 have | cc |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 have | mark |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 have | nsubj |
| 38 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 have | aux |
| 39 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | conj |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 have | obj |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 wife | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 wife | nmod:poss |
| 43 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 have | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 kingdom | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 kingdom | cc |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 kingdom | det |
| 47 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | conj |
| 48 | with | with | ADP | _ | 49 her | case |
| 49 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 kingdom | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | time | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the eldest brother | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | would | brother | haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | brother not said here | haste not said here | to the princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to princess=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is a | past | brother | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | set | past · perfect · passive | the one | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 8 | have | should | brother | princess | for brother's wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/49/73/