Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 70

‘He is still alive,’ said the huntsman; ‘and I am glad that I had pity on him, but let him go in peace, and brought home his royal coat.’

Who acts: king, I · What happens: be, say, have, let, go, bring · To what, where: huntsman, pity, king, peace, royal coat · 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, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 alive	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 alive	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 alive	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 alive	advmod
5	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 alive	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 alive	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 huntsman	det
10	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 ‘	punct
12	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 glad	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 glad	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 glad	cop
16	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 glad	ccomp
20	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 let	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 let	cc
25	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 let	obj
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 let	xcomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 peace	case
29	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 go	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 brought	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 brought	cc
32	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
33	home	home	ADV	_	32 brought	advmod
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 coat	nmod:poss
35	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 coat	amod
36	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 brought	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 brought	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	32 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	king			still	alive property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the huntsman			‘ obl	tree rules
3	is	present	I				glad property	tree rules
4	have	past	I	pity			on king	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient
5	let	infinitive		king				tree rules
6	go	infinitive	king not said here		peace			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in peace=Location
7	bring	past		king's royal coat			home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent coat=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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