--- title: After, this they went on board a ship to pass over the sea which sep… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: After, this they went on board a ship to pass over the sea which separated them from home, and during the voyage the two elder Brothers said to one another, "Our Brother has found the water of life and we have not; therefore our Father will give the kingdom which belongs to us to him, and our fortun --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/42/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimm's Fairy Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/) / [The Water of Life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/) / 42 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 42 After, this they went on board a ship to pass over the sea which separated them from home, and during the voyage the two elder Brothers said to one another, "Our Brother has found the water of life and we have not; therefore our Father will give the kingdom which belongs to us to him, and our fortune will be taken away." **Who acts:** sword, sea, two elder Brothers, we, Father, kingdom · **What happens:** go, pass, separate, say, find, not have · **To what, where:** ship, sea, sword, one, Brother, kingdom · **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 (sword, sea, two elder Brothers, we), 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:pg11027:17:42 # text = After, this they went on board a ship to pass over the sea which separated them from home, and during the voyage the two elder Brothers said to one another, "Our Brother has found the water of life and we have not; therefore our Father will give the kingdom which belongs to us to him, and our fortune will be taken away." 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 obl _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 board board ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 12 over over ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 separated separate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 22 during during ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 voyage voyage NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 27 elder elder ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 Brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 obl _ _ 32 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 31 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 Our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 Brother Brother PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 parataxis _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 46 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 45 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ; ; PUNCT : _ 52 punct _ _ 48 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 49 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 50 Father Father PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 51 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 52 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 ccomp _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ _ 55 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 56 nsubj _ _ 56 belongs belong VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 acl:relcl _ _ 57 to to ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 58 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 56 obl _ _ 59 to to ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 60 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 67 cc _ _ 63 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 64 nmod:poss _ _ 64 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 nsubj:pass _ _ 65 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 67 aux _ _ 66 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 67 aux:pass _ _ 67 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 52 advcl _ _ 68 away away ADV RB _ 67 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 70 " " PUNCT '' _ 52 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | sword | | | a ship | after this | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ship=Location | | 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | sword *not said here* | | | the sea | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over sea=Location | | 3 | **separate** | past | the sea | sword | | | | from home | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient from home=Co-Patient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the two elder Brothers | | one | | during the voyage | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **find** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | Our Brother | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme water=Attribute | | 6 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | present | we | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **give** *in a quote* | future | our Father | the kingdom | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme | | 8 | **belong** *in a quote* | present | the kingdom | | us | | | to Brother | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **take away** *in a quote* | future · passive | | our fortune | | | | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:** «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 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/43/) - ↑ back to [The Water of Life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/)