Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 84
But the old king begged so hard, that she had no peace till she had told him all the tale, from beginning to end, word for word.
Who acts: old king, girl · What happens: beg, have, tell, begin · To what, where: peace, tale, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old king, girl), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 begged | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 king | amod |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 begged | nsubj |
| 5 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 hard | advmod |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 begged | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 had | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 begged | conj |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 peace | det |
| 13 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 told | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 told | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 told | aux |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 had | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 told | iobj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 tale | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tale | det |
| 21 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 told | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 beginning | punct |
| 23 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 24 beginning | mark |
| 24 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 told | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 end | case |
| 26 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 beginning | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 word | punct |
| 28 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 end | appos |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 word | case |
| 30 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 word | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | participle | the old king | hard property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | past | girl | no peace | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | girl | all tale | king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient tale=Topic | |||
| 4 | begin | gerund | girl not said here | to end | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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