Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 147

Then he offered the dwarfs money, and prayed and besought them to let him take her away; but they said, ‘We will not part with her for all the gold in the world.’

Who acts: owl, letters, We · What happens: offer, pray, beseech, let, take away, say · To what, where: dwarfs money, letters, owl, SNOWDROP, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (owl, letters, We), 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 offered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 offered	nsubj
3	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dwarfs	det
5	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 money	compound
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 offered	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 prayed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 prayed	cc
9	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 offered	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 besought	cc
11	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 prayed	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 besought	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 let	mark
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 besought	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 take	obj
18	away	away	ADV	_	16 take	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 offered	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 part	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 part	punct
25	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 part	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 part	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 part	advmod
28	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	ccomp
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 part	nmod
31	for	for	ADP	_	34 gold	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 gold	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 gold	det
34	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 part	nmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 world	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 world	det
37	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 part	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 offered	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	past	owl	dwarfs money		then		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent money=Theme
2	pray	past						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	beseech	past		letters = letter				tree rules
4	let	to-infinitive		owl				tree rules
5	take away	infinitive	owl not said here	SNOWDROP			away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past	letters = letter					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	not part	future	We		the world		with SNOWDROP; for all gold	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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