Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 39

The Sister wept very much and told him, "Soon will they kill you, and I shall be here alone in this forest, forsaken by all the world: I cannot let you go."

Who acts: Sister, huntsmen, King · What happens: weep, tell, kill, be, forsake, not let · To what, where: forest, King · 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 (Sister, huntsmen, King), 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 Sister	det
2	Sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wept	nsubj
3	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	3 wept	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wept	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kill	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 kill	punct
11	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 kill	advmod
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 kill	aux
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 kill	nsubj
14	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 told	conj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 kill	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 here	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 here	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 here	nsubj
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 here	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 here	cop
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 wept	advmod
22	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 here	fixed
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 forest	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 forest	det
25	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wept	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 forsaken	punct
27	forsaken	forsake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 forest	acl
28	by	by	ADP	_	31 world	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 world	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 world	det
31	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 forsaken	obl
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 let	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 let	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 let	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 let	advmod
36	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wept	parataxis
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 let	obj
38	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 let	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 let	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	weep	past	the Sister			this forest		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	the Sister not said here		King			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	kill in a quote	future	huntsmen = huntsman	King			soon property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	is in a quote	shall	the Sister = sister				here property	tree rules
5	forsake in a quote	participle		this forest not said here			by all world	tree rules
6	not let in a quote	can	the Sister = sister	King				tree rules
7	go in a quote	infinitive	King 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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