Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 31

However, she gave him no rest, and said she would take care no light should fall upon him.

Who acts: enchantment, light · What happens: give, say, take, fall · To what, where: rest, feast, care · 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 (enchantment, light), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 gave	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 rest	det
7	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 take	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 take	aux
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
14	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obj
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 light	det
16	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fall	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 fall	aux
18	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 take	parataxis
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fall	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	enchantment	no rest	feast	however property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rest=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	enchantment not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	would	enchantment	care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
4	fall	should	no light			upon feast	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location

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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