Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 54

Tell me boldly what it is," said the Prince, "I will forgive you." "

Who acts: sentence, Prince, I · What happens: tell, be, say, forgive · To what, where: me, you · 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 (sentence, Prince, I), 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	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Tell	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 what	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 what	cop
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Prince	det
11	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 forgive	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 forgive	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 forgive	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 forgive	aux
16	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 forgive	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 forgive	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 forgive	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	infinitive			me	boldly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	is a	present	sentence				tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the Prince				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	forgive	future	I	you			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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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