Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 65

The prince started at this, and said, ‘Let me live, and I will change dresses with you; you shall take my royal coat to show to my father, and do you give me your shabby one.’

Who acts: prince, me, I, you · What happens: start, say, let, live, change, take · To what, where: this, me, dresses, royal coat, father, shabby one · 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, me, I, you), 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 started	nsubj
3	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 this	case
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 started	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 started	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Let	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 Let	punct
11	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 Let	obj
13	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 Let	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 change	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 change	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 change	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 change	aux
18	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 Let	conj
19	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 change	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 change	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 take	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 take	nsubj
24	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 take	aux
25	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 started	parataxis
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 coat	nmod:poss
27	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 coat	amod
28	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 take	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 show	mark
30	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 take	advcl
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 father	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 father	nmod:poss
33	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 show	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 give	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 give	cc
36	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 give	aux
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 give	nsubj
38	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 take	conj
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 give	iobj
40	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 one	nmod:poss
41	shabby	shabby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 one	amod
42	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 give	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 take	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	start	past	the prince			this		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
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	let	infinitive		me				tree rules
4	live	infinitive	me not said here					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	change	future	I	dresses			with you	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent dress=Theme with you=Co-Agent
6	take	shall	you	my royal coat				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme
7	show	to-infinitive	you not said here		my father			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient
8	give	present · do-support	you	your shabby one	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient one=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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