Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 42

As soon as the King perceived him, he said to his huntsmen, "Follow him all day long till the evening, but let no one do him any harm."

Who acts: King, one · What happens: perceive, say, follow, let, do · To what, where: brook, huntsmen, King, one · 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, one), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 said	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 perceived	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 perceived	nsubj
6	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 perceived	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 perceived	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 huntsmen	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 huntsmen	nmod:poss
13	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Follow	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Follow	punct
16	Follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 Follow	obj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Follow	obl:unmarked
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 evening	advmod
21	till	till	ADP	_	23 evening	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 evening	det
23	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Follow	obl:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 let	cc
26	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 Follow	conj
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 let	obj
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 do	obj
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	32 harm	det
32	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 do	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	the King	brook				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	King		King's huntsmen		soon property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to huntsman=Recipient clause=Topic
3	follow in a quote	infinitive		King		day; evening		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	let in a quote	infinitive		no one				tree rules
5	do in a quote	infinitive	no one not said here	King				tree rules

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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