Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 44

The prince begged so hard for his brothers, that the dwarf at last set them free, though unwillingly, saying, ‘Beware of them, for they have bad hearts.’

Who acts: prince, last, armies · What happens: beg, set, say, beware, have · To what, where: armies, bad hearts · 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 (prince, last, armies), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	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	for	for	ADP	_	8 brothers	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 brothers	nmod:poss
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 begged	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dwarf	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 dwarf	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dwarf	det
12	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 begged	parataxis
13	at	at	SCONJ	_	15 set	mark
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 set	nsubj
15	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dwarf	advcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 set	obj
17	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 set	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saying	punct
19	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 saying	mark
20	unwillingly	unwillingly	ADV	_	22 saying	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 unwillingly	punct
22	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 begged	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Beware	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 Beware	punct
25	Beware	beware	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 saying	ccomp
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 Beware	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 have	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 have	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 have	nsubj
31	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 Beware	parataxis
32	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 hearts	amod
33	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 have	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 Beware	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 Beware	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	the prince		for prince's brothers; hard property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for brother=Topic
2	set	past	last	armies = army	free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the prince not said here		unwillingly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	beware	infinitive			of armies = army	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	have	present	armies = army	bad hearts		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient

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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