Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 26

She was, however, so much afraid of the step-mother, that she begged him not to stop more than one night in the castle.

Who acts: girl · What happens: be, beg, not stop · To what, where: King, castle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 was	nsubj
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 afraid	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	8 afraid	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 afraid	advmod
8	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 was	advcl
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 mother	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mother	det
11	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mother	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 step	punct
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 afraid	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 begged	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 begged	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 begged	nsubj
17	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 afraid	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 begged	obj
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 stop	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 stop	mark
21	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 begged	ccomp
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	24 one	advmod
23	than	than	ADP	_	22 more	fixed
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 night	nummod
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stop	obl:unmarked
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 castle	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 castle	det
28	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stop	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	past	girl				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	beg speech: request	past	girl	King			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not stop not said to happen	to-infinitive			the castle	night	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location

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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