Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 10

But he begged so hard that the king let him go; and the prince thought to himself, ‘If I bring my father this water, he will make me sole heir to his kingdom.’

Who acts: king, man, prince, I · What happens: beg, let, go, think, bring, make · To what, where: man, king, water, father, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, man, prince, 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	_	3 begged	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 begged	nsubj
3	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 begged	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 let	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 let	nsubj
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 begged	ccomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 thought	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 thought	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 prince	det
15	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thought	nsubj
16	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 begged	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 himself	case
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 thought	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 make	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 make	punct
21	If	if	SCONJ	_	23 bring	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 bring	nsubj
23	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 make	advcl
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 father	nmod:poss
25	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bring	obj
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 water	det
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bring	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bring	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 make	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 make	aux
31	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 thought	ccomp
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 make	obj
33	sole	sole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 heir	amod
34	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 make	xcomp
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 kingdom	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 kingdom	nmod:poss
37	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 make	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 begged	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	king			hard property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let	infinitive	the king	man			tree rules
3	go	infinitive	man not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	think speech: other	past	the prince		king		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	bring a condition, not said to happen	present	I	this water	my father		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent father=Destination water=Theme
6	make	future	king	me		to king's kingdom	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product

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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