Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 14

And at last the man yielded with a heavy heart, and took the rose; and said he would give the lion whatever should meet him first on his return.

Who acts: last, man · What happens: yield, take, say, give, meet, return · To what, where: rose, lion, whatever, return · 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 (last, man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 yielded	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 yielded	nsubj:outer
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 last	nsubj
6	yielded	yield	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 heart	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 heart	det
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 heart	amod
10	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 yielded	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 took	cc
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 yielded	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rose	det
15	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 yielded	conj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 give	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 give	aux
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 lion	det
23	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obj
24	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 meet	obj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 meet	aux
26	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 lion	acl:relcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 meet	obj
28	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	26 meet	advmod
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 return	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 return	nmod:poss
31	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 meet	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 yielded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	yield	past	last			with a heavy heart	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	last not said here	the rose			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	last not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give	would	man	the lion			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Theme
5	meet	should		whatever	man's return	first property	tree rules
6	return		man				nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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