Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 12

But the man was unwilling to do so and said, ‘It may be my youngest daughter, who loves me most, and always runs to meet me when I go home.’

Who acts: man, unwilling, youngest daughter, I · What happens: unwill, do, say, ‘, be, love · To what, where: life, youngest daughter, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Lily and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, unwilling, youngest daughter, I), 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	_	5 unwilling	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 unwilling	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 unwilling	aux
5	unwilling	unwill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 daughter	csubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 unwilling	xcomp
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ‘	punct
12	‘	‘	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
13	It	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ‘	obj
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 daughter	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 daughter	cop
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 daughter	nmod:poss
17	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 daughter	amod
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 loves	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 loves	nsubj
21	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 daughter	parataxis
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 loves	obj
23	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	21 loves	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 runs	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 runs	cc
26	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	27 runs	advmod
27	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 loves	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 meet	mark
29	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 runs	advcl
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 meet	obj
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 go	advmod
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 go	nsubj
33	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 meet	advcl
34	home	home	ADV	_	33 go	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 daughter	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 daughter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	unwill	past · progressive	the man			tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the man not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the man not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	‘	past	the man not said here	life		tree rules
5	is a	may	unwilling	my youngest daughter		tree rules
6	love	present	my youngest daughter	me		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
7	run	present	my youngest daughter not said here		always property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	meet	to-infinitive	my youngest daughter not said here	me		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent
9	go	present	I		home property	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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