Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 79
Now when the full year was come round, the third brother left the forest in which he had lain hid for fear of his father’s anger, and set out in search of his betrothed bride.
Who acts: third brother, brother, forest, father · What happens: come round, leave, lie, hide, set out, betroth · To what, where: full year, forest, search, anger, betrothed bride
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 (third brother, brother, forest, father), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 left | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 come | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 year | det |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 year | amod |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux:pass |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Now | advcl |
| 8 | round | round | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 brother | det |
| 11 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 brother | amod |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 left | nsubj |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hid | nsubj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 lain | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lain | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lain | aux |
| 20 | lain | lie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 forest | acl:relcl |
| 21 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 left | advcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 fear | case |
| 23 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hid | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 anger | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 father | nmod:poss |
| 26 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 anger | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 father | case |
| 28 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fear | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 set | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 set | cc |
| 31 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 left | conj |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 set | compound:prt |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 search | case |
| 34 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 set | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 bride | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 bride | nmod:poss |
| 37 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 bride | amod |
| 38 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 search | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come round | past · passive | the full year | round property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | the third brother | now | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lie | past · perfect | brother | the forest | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location | ||||
| 4 | hide | past | the forest | for fear of brother's father's anger | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | set out | past | the third brother not said here | search of brother's betrothed bride | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | betroth | participle | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | fear | brother's father's anger | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | anger | brother's father | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | search | brother's betrothed bride | 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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