Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 7

But when he saw it he could not deny himself the pleasure of tasting it, so he cut of a little bit and put it into his mouth.

Who acts: king, pleasure · What happens: see, not deny, taste, cut, put · To what, where: cover, king, mouth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, pleasure), 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	_	4 saw	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 deny	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 deny	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 deny	advmod
9	deny	deny	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 saw	ccomp
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 deny	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pleasure	det
12	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 deny	obj
13	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 tasting	mark
14	tasting	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 pleasure	acl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tasting	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cut	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 cut	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cut	nsubj
19	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	parataxis
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 bit	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bit	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bit	amod
23	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cut	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 put	cc
25	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 cut	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 put	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 mouth	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mouth	nmod:poss
29	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	king	cover			tree rules
2	not deny	could	king	king			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme pleasure=Eventuality
3	taste	gerund	the pleasure not said here	cover			vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute
4	cut	past	king			of a little bit	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of bit=Location
5	put	infinitive	king not said here	cover	king's mouth		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

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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