Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 82
Then he told him everything; how his brothers had cheated and robbed him, and yet that he had borne all those wrongs for the love of his father.
Who acts: forest · What happens: tell, cheat, rob, bear, love · To what, where: everything, father, brothers, forest, wrongs · 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 (forest), 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 | 3 told | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 told | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 cheated | punct |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 cheated | advmod |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cheated | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cheated | aux |
| 11 | cheated | cheat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 told | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 robbed | cc |
| 13 | robbed | rob | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cheated | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 robbed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 borne | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 borne | cc |
| 17 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 21 borne | advmod |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 borne | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 borne | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 borne | aux |
| 21 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 told | conj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 wrongs | det:predet |
| 23 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 wrongs | det |
| 24 | wrongs | wrong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 borne | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 love | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 love | det |
| 27 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wrongs | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 father | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 father | nmod:poss |
| 30 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 love | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | forest | everything | father | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient everything=Topic | ||
| 2 | cheat | past · perfect · passive | forest's brothers | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | |||||
| 3 | rob | past | forest | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Source | |||||
| 4 | bear | past · perfect | forest | all wrongs | yet | for the love of forest's father | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wrong=Stimulus for love=Attribute | ||
| 5 | love | forest's father | nom love «feeling 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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