Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 83
And the old king was very angry, and wanted to punish his wicked sons; but they made their escape, and got into a ship and sailed away over the wide sea, and where they went to nobody knew and nobody cared.
Who acts: old king, sons, nobody · What happens: be, want, punish, make, get, sail away · To what, where: wicked sons, escape, ship, wide sea
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 (old king, sons, nobody), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 angry | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 king | amod |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 angry | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 angry | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 angry | advmod |
| 7 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wanted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wanted | cc |
| 10 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 angry | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 punish | mark |
| 12 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wanted | xcomp |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sons | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sons | amod |
| 15 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 punish | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 made | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 made | nsubj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 angry | conj |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 escape | nmod:poss |
| 21 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 got | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 got | cc |
| 24 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | conj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 ship | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 ship | det |
| 27 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 got | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sailed | cc |
| 29 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 got | conj |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 sailed | advmod |
| 31 | over | over | ADP | _ | 34 sea | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sea | det |
| 33 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 sea | amod |
| 34 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sailed | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 went | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 went | cc |
| 37 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 39 went | advmod |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 went | nsubj |
| 39 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | parataxis |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 knew | case |
| 41 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 42 knew | nsubj |
| 42 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 went | conj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 cared | cc |
| 44 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 45 cared | nsubj |
| 45 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 knew | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the old king | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | past | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | punish not said to happen | to-infinitive | forest's wicked sons | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | |||||
| 4 | make | past | sons = son | sons's escape | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset escape=Product | ||||
| 5 | get | past | sons = son not said here | a ship | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into ship=Destination | ||||
| 6 | sail away | past | sons = son not said here | the wide sea | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over sea=Trajectory | |||
| 7 | go | past | sons = son | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | know | past | nobody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | care | past | nobody | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 10 | escape | sons = son | nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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