Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 36
Then the Prince begged for their release, till at last the Dwarf brought them out; but he warned the youngest to beware of them, for they had evil in their hearts.
Who acts: Prince, Dwarf, sword · What happens: beg, bring out, warn, beware, have · To what, where: sword, last, evil, hearts · 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, sword), 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 | 4 begged | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 begged | nsubj |
| 4 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 release | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 release | nmod:poss |
| 7 | release | release | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 begged | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 brought | punct |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 brought | mark |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 last | case |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 brought | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Dwarf | det |
| 13 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 brought | nsubj |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 begged | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 brought | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 brought | compound:prt |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 warned | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 warned | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 warned | nsubj |
| 20 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 begged | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 youngest | det |
| 22 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 warned | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 beware | mark |
| 24 | beware | beware | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 warned | ccomp |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 beware | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 had | punct |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 had | case |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 warned | conj |
| 31 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 had | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 hearts | case |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 34 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 had | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | the Prince | then | for sword's release | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for release=Topic | |||
| 2 | bring out | past | the Dwarf | sword | last | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 3 | warn speech: warn | past | Prince | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | beware | to-infinitive | of sword | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | have | past | sword | evil | sword's hearts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Patient |
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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