Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 75

But when he came to the gate, the guards, who had seen the road he took, said to him, he could not be what he said he was, and must go about his business.

Who acts: brother, guards · What happens: come, see, take, say, not be, be · To what, where: guards, gate, road, brother · 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 (brother, guards), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 said	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 gate	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gate	det
7	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 guards	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 guards	det
10	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seen	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 seen	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seen	aux
14	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 guards	acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 road	det
16	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seen	obj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 took	nsubj
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 road	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 be	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 be	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 be	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 be	advmod
27	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 said	ccomp
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 said	obj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	nsubj
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 said	conj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 go	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 go	cop
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 go	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 go	cc
35	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 go	aux
36	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 said	ccomp
37	about	about	ADP	_	39 business	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 business	nmod:poss
39	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 go	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	brother	the guards		the gate		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location
2	see	past · perfect	the guards	the road				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus
3	take	past	brother	the road not said here				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past			brother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5	not can	could	brother					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past	brother					tree rules
7	is	must · past	brother				about brother's business; go 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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