Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 79

The man, who loved her, thought, "Sooner than let your wife die, bring her some of the rampion yourself, let it cost you what it will."

Who acts: man, wife, rampion · What happens: love, think, let, die, bring, cost · To what, where: desire, wife, some, rampion, you · 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 (man, wife, rampion), 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 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 let	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 loved	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 loved	nsubj
5	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 man	acl:relcl
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loved	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loved	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Sooner	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Sooner	punct
11	Sooner	soon	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 thought	ccomp
12	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 let	mark
13	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 Sooner	csubj
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wife	nmod:poss
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 let	obj
16	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bring	punct
18	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bring	obj
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 bring	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 rampion	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rampion	det
23	rampion	rampion	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 some	nmod
24	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 bring	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 man	punct
26	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 let	obj
28	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 cost	iobj
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 cost	obj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 will	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 what	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	love	past	the man	desire			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	past	the man not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	let in a quote	infinitive		your wife			tree rules
4	die in a quote	infinitive	your wife not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	bring in a quote	infinitive		some	desire	yourself obl	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination some=Theme
6	let in a quote	infinitive	the man	rampion			tree rules
7	cost in a quote	infinitive	rampion not said here		you		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme you=Beneficiary what=Value

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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