Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 18

But she would not leave him alone, and urged him saying, ‘If you will not eat anything, at least you might take a draught of wine; one drink counts for nothing,’ and at last he allowed himself to be persuaded, and drank.

Who acts: woman, you, one drink, man · What happens: not leave, urge, say, not eat, take, count · To what, where: man, anything, draught, least, last · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, you, one drink, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 leave	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 leave	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 leave	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 leave	advmod
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 leave	obj
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 leave	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 urged	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 urged	cc
10	urged	urge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 leave	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 urged	iobj
12	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 urged	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ‘	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 saying	punct
15	If	if	SCONJ	_	19 eat	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 eat	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 eat	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 eat	advmod
19	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 saying	ccomp
20	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 eat	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 take	punct
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 least	case
23	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 take	obl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 take	nsubj
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 take	aux
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 eat	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 draught	det
28	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 take	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 wine	case
30	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 draught	nmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 counts	punct
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 drink	nummod
33	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 counts	nsubj
34	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 leave	parataxis
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 nothing	case
36	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	34 counts	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 nothing	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 counts	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 drank	cc
40	at	at	ADP	_	41 last	case
41	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 drank	obl
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 allowed	nsubj
43	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 last	acl:relcl
44	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	43 allowed	obj
45	to	to	PART	_	47 persuaded	mark
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 persuaded	aux:pass
47	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 allowed	xcomp
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 drank	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 drank	cc
50	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 counts	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 leave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not leave	would	woman	man			alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	urge	past	woman not said here		man			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert not said to happen	gerund	woman not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not eat a condition, not said to happen	future	you	anything				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
5	take	might	you	a draught of wine		least		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent draught=Theme at least=Asset
6	count	present	one drink				for nothing	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
7	allow	past	man	man				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer himself=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
8	persuade not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	man not said here					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»
9	drink	past	one drink not said here			last		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/47/18/