Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 56
The Prince was frightened, and said, "Let me live, dear Huntsman, let me live!
Who acts: me · What happens: frighten, say, let, live · To what, where: Prince, me, dear Huntsman · 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 (me), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | aux:pass |
| 4 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Let | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Let | punct |
| 10 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 Let | obj |
| 12 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Let | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Huntsman | punct |
| 14 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Huntsman | amod |
| 15 | Huntsman | Huntsman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 live | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Let | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 let | obj |
| 19 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | the Prince | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | live in a quote | infinitive | me not said here | dear Huntsman | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | let in a quote | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | live in a quote | infinitive | me not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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