Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 33

Now, the Prince was not willing to return home to his Father without his Brothers, and so he said to the Dwarf, "Dear Dwarf, can you tell me where my Brothers are?

Who acts: Prince, Dwarf, Brothers · What happens: not be, return, say, tell, be · To what, where: Father, Dwarf, Prince · 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 (Prince, Dwarf, Brothers), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 willing	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Prince	det
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 willing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 willing	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 willing	advmod
7	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 return	mark
9	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 willing	xcomp
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 return	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 Father	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 Father	nmod:poss
13	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 return	obl
14	without	without	ADP	_	16 Brothers	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 Brothers	nmod:poss
16	Brothers	Brother	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 return	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 said	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 willing	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 Dwarf	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Dwarf	det
24	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 said	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Dwarf	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 Dwarf	punct
27	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Dwarf	amod
28	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Dwarf	appos
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tell	punct
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 tell	aux
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 tell	nsubj
32	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 tell	iobj
34	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 tell	ccomp
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 Brothers	nmod:poss
36	Brothers	Brother	PROPN	Number=Plur	34 where	nsubj
37	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 where	cop
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 willing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the Prince		now	willing property	tree rules
2	return	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here	Prince's Father		without Prince's Brothers; home property	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to father=Result
3	say speech: ask	past	Prince	the Dwarf			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to dwarf=Recipient clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	the Dwarf = dwarf	Prince			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	is in a quote	present	my Brothers			where property	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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