Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 19

But she comforted him, and said, ‘Dear father, the word you have given must be kept; I will go to the lion, and soothe him: perhaps he will let me come safe home again.’

Who acts: rose, you, I, father, me · What happens: comfort, say, give, keep, go, soothe · To what, where: father, word, Dear father, 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 (rose, you, I, father), 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	_	3 comforted	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 comforted	nsubj
3	comforted	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 comforted	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 comforted	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 father	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 father	punct
10	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 father	amod
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kept	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 word	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 word	det
14	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 father	appos
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 given	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 given	aux
17	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 word	acl:relcl
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 kept	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 kept	aux:pass
20	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	ccomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 go	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 go	aux
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 comforted	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 lion	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lion	det
27	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 soothe	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 soothe	cc
30	soothe	soothe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 go	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 soothe	obj
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 let	punct
33	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	36 let	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 let	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 let	aux
36	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 go	parataxis
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 let	obj
38	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 let	xcomp
39	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 come	xcomp
40	home	home	ADV	_	38 come	advmod
41	again	again	ADV	_	38 come	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 let	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	36 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	comfort	past	rose	father			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	rose not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give	present · perfect	you	the word not said here			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
4	keep	must · passive		Dear father			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	go	future	I			to the lion	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lion=Initial_Location
6	soothe	infinitive	I not said here	father			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
7	let	future	father	me		perhaps property	tree rules
8	come	infinitive	me not said here		again	home, safe property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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