Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 63

But the prince begged very hard, and said, ‘Only tell me what it is, and do not think I shall be angry, for I will forgive you.’

Who acts: prince, last, I · What happens: beg, say, tell, be, not think, forgive · To what, where: me, you · 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, 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	_	4 begged	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 begged	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begged	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
12	Only	only	ADV	_	13 tell	advmod
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 tell	obj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 is	nsubj
17	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 what	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 think	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 think	cc
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 think	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 think	advmod
22	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	parataxis
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 angry	nsubj
24	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 angry	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 angry	cop
26	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 think	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 forgive	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 forgive	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 forgive	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 forgive	aux
31	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 think	conj
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 forgive	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	the prince			hard property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the prince not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive			me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Topic
4	be	present	last				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not think speech: other	infinitive · do-support					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	shall	I			angry property	tree rules
7	forgive	future	I	you			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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