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title: He no sooner began to drink of what they brought him, than he felt h… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He no sooner began to drink of what they brought him, than he felt his sickness leave him, and was as strong and well as in his younger days. Who acts: brother, sons, sickness. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 54

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He no sooner began to drink of what they brought him, than he felt his sickness leave him, and was as strong and well as in his younger days.

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**Who acts:** brother, sons, sickness · **What happens:** begin, drink, bring, feel, leave, be · **To what, where:** brother, sickness

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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 (brother, sons, sickness), 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:pg2591:49:54
# text = He no sooner began to drink of what they brought him, than he felt his sickness leave him, and was as strong and well as in his younger days.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	1	conj	_	_
3	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sickness	sickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	amod	_	_
31	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | brother |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **drink** | to-infinitive | brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of what=Source |
| 3 | **bring** | past | sons *= son* |  | brother |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 4 | **feel** | past | brother | brother's sickness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **leave** | infinitive | brother's sickness *not said here* | brother |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | brother *not said here* |  |  |  | day | strong *property* | tree rules |

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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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