Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 24

The girl reached the plate to him, but the king’s son threw off the quilt, and said: ‘You old sinner, why did you want to kill me?

Who acts: girl, son, You · What happens: reach, throw off, say, sinner, want, kill · To what, where: plate, boy, quilt, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, son, You), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plate	det
5	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 threw	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 threw	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 son	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 king	case
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 threw	nsubj
14	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reached	parataxis
15	off	off	ADP	_	17 quilt	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 quilt	det
17	quilt	quilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 threw	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reached	parataxis
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 sinner	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 sinner	punct
23	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 sinner	nsubj
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sinner	amod
25	sinner	sinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 want	punct
27	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	30 want	advmod
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 want	aux
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 want	nsubj
30	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 sinner	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 kill	mark
32	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 want	xcomp
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 kill	obj
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	reach	past	the girl	the plate	boy	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent plate=Theme
2	throw off	past	the king's son	the quilt		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quilt=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	sinner		You			tree rules
5	want	past · do-support	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	me		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

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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