Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 47

But the king insisted on it, and said: ‘You shall sit by me,’ until he did it.

Who acts: king, You · What happens: insist, say, sit, do · To what, where: king, majesty · 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 (king, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
4	insisted	insist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 king	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 insisted	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 sit	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 sit	punct
12	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 sit	nsubj
13	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 sit	aux
14	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 sit	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sit	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 sit	punct
19	until	until	SCONJ	_	21 did	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 did	nsubj
21	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sit	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 did	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	insist speech: other	participle		the king not said here	majesty		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the king				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	sit	shall	You			by me	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by i=Location
4	do	past	king	majesty			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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