Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 74

Then the servant led her away; but his heart melted when Snowdrop begged him to spare her life, and he said, ‘I will not hurt you, thou pretty child.’

Who acts: servant, heart, Snowdrop, sweetheart, I · What happens: lead away, melt, beg, spare, say, not hurt · To what, where: SNOWDROP, sweetheart, life, you · 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 (servant, heart, Snowdrop, sweetheart), 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	4 led	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 servant	det
3	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 led	nsubj
4	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 led	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	4 led	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 melted	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 melted	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 heart	nmod:poss
10	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 melted	nsubj
11	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 led	conj
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 begged	advmod
13	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 begged	nsubj
14	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 melted	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 begged	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 spare	mark
17	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 begged	xcomp
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 life	nmod:poss
19	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spare	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 led	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hurt	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 hurt	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 hurt	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 hurt	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 hurt	advmod
29	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 hurt	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 thou	punct
32	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	29 hurt	obl
33	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	34 child	advmod
34	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hurt	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 hurt	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 hurt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	lead away	past	the servant	SNOWDROP		then	away property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	melt	past	sweetheart's heart					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	beg speech: request	past	Snowdrop		sweetheart			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	spare not said to happen	to-infinitive	Snowdrop not said here	SNOWDROP's life				vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset
5	say speech: assert	past	sweetheart					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not hurt	future	I	you			thou obl; child obl	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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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