Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 94

On her half he wrote his name, and on his own he wrote hers, and begged her to preserve it carefully.

Who acts: BEARSKIN · What happens: write, beg, preserve, name · To what, where: name, half, finger, own

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (BEARSKIN), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 half	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 half	nmod:poss
3	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 wrote	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wrote	nsubj
5	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 name	nmod:poss
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrote	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wrote	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wrote	cc
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 own	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 own	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wrote	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wrote	nsubj
14	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wrote	conj
15	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wrote	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 begged	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 begged	cc
18	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wrote	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 begged	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 preserve	mark
21	preserve	preserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 begged	xcomp
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 preserve	obj
23	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	21 preserve	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	write	past	BEARSKIN	BEARSKIN's name		finger's half		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Theme on half=Destination
2	write	past	BEARSKIN	finger		BEARSKIN's own		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent her=Theme on own=Destination
3	beg speech: request	past	BEARSKIN not said here		finger			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	preserve not said to happen	to-infinitive	BEARSKIN not said here	name			carefully property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary
5	name		BEARSKIN					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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