Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 65

Then she did as she was told; but when all was done she could not help crying, for she thought to herself, she should so have liked to have gone with them to the ball; and at last she begged her mother very hard to let her go.

Who acts: ASHPUTTEL · What happens: do, tell, not help, cry, think, like · To what, where: ASHPUTTEL, all, ball, mother, last · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ASHPUTTEL), 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 did	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 told	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux:pass
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	advcl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 done	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 done	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 done	advmod
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 done	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 done	aux:pass
13	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	conj
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 help	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 help	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 help	advmod
17	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 done	parataxis
18	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 help	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thought	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 thought	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 thought	nsubj
22	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 done	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 herself	case
24	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 thought	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 done	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 liked	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 liked	aux
28	so	so	ADV	_	30 liked	advmod
29	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 liked	aux
30	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 done	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	33 gone	mark
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 gone	aux
33	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 liked	xcomp
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 gone	obl
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 ball	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 ball	det
38	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gone	obl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 begged	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 begged	cc
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 last	case
42	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 begged	obl
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 begged	nsubj
44	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 mother	nmod:poss
46	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 begged	obj
47	very	very	ADV	_	48 hard	advmod
48	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 begged	advcl
49	to	to	PART	_	50 let	mark
50	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 hard	xcomp
51	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 let	obj
52	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 let	xcomp
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	ASHPUTTEL				then		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		ASHPUTTEL					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	do	past · passive		all					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	not help	could	ASHPUTTEL						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	cry speech: express	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	think speech: other	past	ASHPUTTEL		ASHPUTTEL				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	like	should · perfect	ASHPUTTEL						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	go not said to happen	to-infinitive · perfect	ASHPUTTEL not said here			the ball		with sisters = sister	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ball=Initial_Location
9	beg speech: request	past	ASHPUTTEL		ASHPUTTEL's mother	last			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient
10	let	to-infinitive	ASHPUTTEL not said here	ASHPUTTEL					tree rules
11	go	infinitive	ASHPUTTEL not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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