--- title: "I will soon find it," said the eldest Son, and, going to the sick K… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: "I will soon find it," said the eldest Son, and, going to the sick King, he begged his permission to set out in search of the water of life, which alone could save him. " Who acts: eldest Son, King. 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" **Who acts:** eldest Son, King · **What happens:** find, say, go, beg, set out, save · **To what, where:** life, permission, King, search, water · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» 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 (eldest Son, King), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11027:17:4 # text = "I will soon find it," said the eldest Son, and, going to the sick King, he begged his permission to set out in search of the water of life, which alone could save him. " 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 5 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 eldest eld ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ _ 12 Son Son PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 permission permission NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ _ 28 out out ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 search search NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 38 alone alone ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 41 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** *in a quote* | future | the eldest Son *= son* | life | | | | soon *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the eldest Son | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **go** | gerund | King *not said here* | | | | | to the sick King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | King | King's permission | | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **set out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **save** | could | | King | | search of the water of life | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 7 | **permit** | | King | | | | | | nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **search** | | | the water of life | | | | | 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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/5/) - ↑ back to [The Water of Life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/)