Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 5

Then she began to bewail her loss, and said, ‘Alas! if I could only get my ball again, I would give all my fine clothes and jewels, and everything that I have in the world.’

Who acts: princess, I · What happens: begin, bewail, say, get, give, have · To what, where: princess, ball, fine clothes, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Frog-prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, I), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 began	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 bewail	mark
5	bewail	bewail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bewail	obj
7	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bewail	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Alas	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 Alas	punct
13	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	19 get	discourse
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 Alas	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 get	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 get	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 get	aux
18	only	only	ADV	_	19 get	advmod
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 ball	nmod:poss
21	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 get	obj
22	again	again	ADV	_	19 get	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 give	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 give	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 give	aux
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 get	conj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 clothes	det:predet
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 clothes	nmod:poss
29	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 clothes	amod
30	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	26 give	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 jewels	cc
32	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 clothes	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 everything	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 everything	cc
35	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 began	parataxis
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 have	obj
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 have	nsubj
38	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 everything	acl:relcl
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 world	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 world	det
41	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 have	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	begin	past	princess			then	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	bewail	to-infinitive	princess not said here	princess			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	princess not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	get a condition, not said to happen	could	I	my ball		again	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ball=Stimulus
5	give	would	I	my fine clothes and jewels			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme
6	have	present	I		the world		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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