Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 83
But he begged and prayed her not to do so, for he was sure it would betray them.
Who acts: husband, dew · What happens: beg, pray, not do, be, betray · To what, where: Catherine, thieves
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, dew), 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 | _ | 3 begged | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 prayed | cc |
| 5 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 begged | conj |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 prayed | obj |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 do | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 prayed | xcomp |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 do | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sure | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 sure | case |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sure | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sure | cop |
| 15 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 do | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 betray | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 betray | aux |
| 18 | betray | betray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sure | ccomp |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 betray | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | husband | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pray | past | husband not said here | Catherine | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not do | to-infinitive | husband not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | husband | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | betray | would | dew | thieves = thief | 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: «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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