Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 107

See, though, those two children, they would be delicate morsels, and are as plump as partridges; I beg of you to take them, good Mr. Bear, and let me go!"

Who acts: you, children, I, me · What happens: see, be, beg, take, let, go · To what, where: two children, delicate morsels, children, me

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, children, I, 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	See	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 though	punct
3	though	though	ADV	_	1 See	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 children	punct
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 children	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 children	nummod
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 See	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 morsels	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 morsels	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 morsels	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 morsels	cop
12	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 morsels	amod
13	morsels	morsel	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 See	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 plump	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 plump	cc
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 plump	cop
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 plump	advmod
18	plump	plump	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 morsels	conj
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 partridges	case
20	partridges	partridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 plump	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 beg	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 beg	nsubj
23	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 See	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 beg	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 take	mark
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 beg	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 take	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Bear	punct
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Bear	amod
31	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Bear	compound
32	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 take	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 let	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 let	cc
35	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 See	parataxis
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 let	obj
37	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 let	xcomp
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	37 go	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	imperative	you not said here	that two children	though property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	would	children = child	delicate morsels		tree rules
3	is	present	children = child not said here		as partridges; plump property	tree rules
4	beg speech: request	present	I		of you	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
5	take	to-infinitive	I not said here	children = child	good Mr. Bear obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	let	infinitive		me		tree rules
7	go	infinitive	me not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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