Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 78

But when he came to the gate the guards said he was not the true prince, and that he too must go away about his business; and away he went.

Who acts: pity, guards · What happens: come, say, not be, go away, go · To what, where: gate, true prince · 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 (pity, 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	_	10 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	10 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 guards	det
9	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 prince	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 prince	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 prince	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 prince	det
15	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 prince	amod
16	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 go	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 go	cc
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 go	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 go	nsubj
21	too	too	ADV	_	23 go	advmod
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 go	aux
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
24	away	away	ADV	_	23 go	advmod
25	about	about	ADP	_	27 business	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 business	nmod:poss
27	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 go	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 went	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 away	cc
30	away	away	ADV	_	32 went	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 went	nsubj
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	pity		the gate		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the guards				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not is a	past	pity	the true prince			tree rules
4	go away	must	pity			about pity's business; away property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about business=Location
5	go	past	pity			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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