Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 67

And the beautiful young lady fell upon her knees before him, and said, ‘O dearest huntsman! forgive me all the ill I have done you; my mother forced me to it, it was against my will, for I always loved you very much.

Who acts: beautiful young lady, dearest huntsman, mother, I · What happens: fall, say, forgive, do, force, love · To what, where: knees, me, ill, miller, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful young lady, dearest huntsman, mother, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 fell	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lady	det
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lady	amod
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lady	amod
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	nsubj
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 knees	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 knees	nmod:poss
9	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fell	obl
10	before	before	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fell	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fell	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 huntsman	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 huntsman	punct
17	O	o	INTJ	_	19 huntsman	discourse
18	dearest	dear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 huntsman	amod
19	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 forgive	nsubj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 huntsman	punct
21	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 forgive	obj
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 done	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 done	det
25	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 done	nsubj:pass
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 done	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 done	aux
28	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 forgive	advcl
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 done	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 forced	punct
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 mother	nmod:poss
32	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 forced	nsubj
33	forced	force	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fell	conj
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 forced	obj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 forced	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 will	punct
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 will	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 will	cop
40	against	against	ADP	_	42 will	case
41	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 will	nmod:poss
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 forced	advcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 loved	punct
44	for	for	SCONJ	_	47 loved	mark
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 loved	nsubj
46	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	47 loved	advmod
47	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 forced	conj
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 loved	obj
49	very	very	ADV	_	50 much	advmod
50	much	much	ADV	_	47 loved	advmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the beautiful young lady			lady's knees	before huntsman		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon knee=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the beautiful young lady not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	forgive	infinitive	dearest huntsman	me					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	do	present · perfect · passive		ill					tree rules
5	force	past	my mother	me	miller				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
6	love	past	I	you				always property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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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