Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 82

Then he offered the dwarfs money, and earnestly prayed them to let him take her away; but they said, "We will not part with her for all the gold in the world."

Who acts: owl, letters, We · What happens: offer, pray, let, take away, say, not part · To what, where: dwarfs money, letters, owl, White, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Snow White. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (owl, letters, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 offered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 offered	nsubj
3	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dwarfs	det
5	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 money	compound
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 offered	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 prayed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 prayed	cc
9	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	_	10 prayed	advmod
10	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 offered	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 prayed	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 let	mark
13	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 prayed	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 take	obj
17	away	away	ADV	_	15 take	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 offered	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 part	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 part	punct
24	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 part	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 part	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 part	advmod
27	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	ccomp
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 part	nmod
30	for	for	ADP	_	33 gold	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 gold	det:predet
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 gold	det
33	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 part	nmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 world	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 world	det
36	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 part	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 offered	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	past	owl	dwarfs money		then		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent money=Theme
2	pray	past	owl not said here	letters = letter			earnestly property	tree rules
3	let	to-infinitive	owl not said here	owl				tree rules
4	take away	infinitive	owl not said here	White			away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	letters = letter					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	not part in a quote	future	We		the world		with White; for all gold	tree rules

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.

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