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title: Then they waited till he was fast asleep, and poured the Water of Li… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they waited till he was fast asleep, and poured the Water of Life out of the cup, and took it for themselves, giving him bitter sea-water instead. Who acts: armies, brother. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 51

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Then they waited till he was fast asleep, and poured the Water of Life out of the cup, and took it for themselves, giving him bitter sea-water instead.

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**Who acts:** armies, brother · **What happens:** wait, be, pour, take, give · **To what, where:** Water, cup, bitter sea water, brother

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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 (armies, brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2591:49:51
# text = Then they waited till he was fast asleep, and poured the Water of Life out of the cup, and took it for themselves, giving him bitter sea-water instead.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Life	Life	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	iobj	_	_
29	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
33	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | armies *= army* |  |  |  | then |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | brother |  |  |  |  | asleep, fast *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pour** | past | armies *= army* *not said here* | the Water of Life |  | the cup |  |  | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme out cup=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **take** | past | armies *= army* *not said here* | Water |  |  |  | for armies *= army* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for themselves=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **give** | gerund | armies *= army* *not said here* | bitter sea water | brother |  |  | instead *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient water=Theme |

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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.

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**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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