Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 194

Then he seized an iron bar and beat the old man till he moaned and entreated him to stop, when he would give him great riches.

Who acts: youth · What happens: seize, beat, moan, entreat, stop, give · To what, where: iron bar, old man, youth, great riches, man

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 seized	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seized	nsubj
3	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bar	det
5	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bar	compound
6	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seized	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 beat	cc
8	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seized	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beat	obj
12	till	till	SCONJ	_	14 moaned	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 moaned	nsubj
14	moaned	moan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 beat	advcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 entreated	cc
16	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seized	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 entreated	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 stop	mark
19	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 entreated	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 give	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 give	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 give	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 give	aux
24	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 stop	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 give	iobj
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 riches	amod
27	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 give	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	seize	past	youth	a iron bar		then	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Theme
2	beat	past	youth not said here	the old man			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme
3	moan	past	youth				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	entreat	past	youth not said here	youth			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	stop	to-infinitive	youth not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	give	would	youth	great riches	man		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rich=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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