Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 10

But the dwarf held them back, and said, ‘Let the pretty insects enjoy themselves, I cannot let you burn them.’

Who acts: dwarf, pretty insects, I, you · What happens: hold back, say, let, enjoy, not let, burn · To what, where: things, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Queen Bee. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarf, pretty insects, I, 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	_	4 held	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dwarf	det
3	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 held	nsubj
4	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 held	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 held	advmod
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	4 held	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Let	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 Let	punct
12	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 insects	det
14	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 insects	amod
15	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 enjoy	nsubj
16	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Let	ccomp
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 enjoy	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 let	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 let	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 let	advmod
22	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 Let	conj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 let	obj
24	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	xcomp
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 burn	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 Let	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hold back	past	the dwarf	things = thing	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the dwarf not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let	infinitive			tree rules
4	enjoy	present	the pretty insects	things = thing	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus
5	not let	can	I	you	tree rules
6	burn	infinitive	you not said here	things = thing	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=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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