Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 158

Now I have you; now death comes upon you!" and taking up an iron bar he beat the old man until he groaned, and begged him to stop, and he would give him great riches.

Who acts: I, death, iron bar, man · What happens: have, come, take up, beat, groan, beg · To what, where: old man, man, great riches, bar

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, death, iron bar, man), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 have	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 comes	punct
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 comes	advmod
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 comes	nsubj
8	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	parataxis
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 comes	obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 comes	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 comes	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 taking	cc
14	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 comes	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 taking	compound:prt
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bar	det
17	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bar	compound
18	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 beat	nsubj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 beat	nsubj
20	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 taking	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 beat	obj
24	until	until	SCONJ	_	26 groaned	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 groaned	nsubj
26	groaned	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 beat	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 begged	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 begged	cc
29	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 groaned	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 begged	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 stop	mark
32	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 begged	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 give	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 give	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 give	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 give	aux
37	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	conj
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 give	iobj
39	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 riches	amod
40	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 give	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	I			now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	come	present	death			now	upon you	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon you=Location
3	take up in a quote	gerund	death not said here					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	beat in a quote	past	a iron bar	the old man				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme
5	groan in a quote	past	man					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	beg speech: request in a quote	past	man not said here		man			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	stop not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	man not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
8	give in a quote	would	man	great riches	bar			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rich=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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