Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 25

Ah!" said he to his Sister, "let me go to the hunt, I cannot restrain myself any longer;" and he begged so hard that at last she consented. "

Who acts: King, me, I, Sister · What happens: say, let, go, not restrain, beg, consent · To what, where: me, hunt, myself, last · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, me, I, Sister), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Sister	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 Sister	nmod:poss
8	Sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
11	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 hunt	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hunt	det
16	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 restrain	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 restrain	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 restrain	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 restrain	advmod
21	restrain	restrain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	conj
22	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 restrain	obj
23	any	any	ADV	_	24 longer	advmod
24	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 restrain	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 begged	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 begged	nsubj
29	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 hard	advmod
31	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 begged	xcomp
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 consented	mark
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 last	case
34	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 consented	obl
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 consented	nsubj
36	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 hard	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	King			to King's Sister	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to sister=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	let	infinitive		me			tree rules
3	go	infinitive	me not said here		the hunt		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hunt=Initial_Location
4	not restrain	can	I	myself		long property	vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer myself=Eventuality
5	beg speech: request in a quote	past	King			hard property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
6	consent in a quote	past	Sister		last		vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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