Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 17

The princess begged and prayed; but the king said, ‘I have sworn to give you to the first comer, and I will keep my word.’

Who acts: princess, king, I, my · What happens: beg, pray, say, swear, give, keep · To what, where: you, word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, king, I, my), 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 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 begged	nsubj
3	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 prayed	cc
5	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 begged	conj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 begged	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sworn	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 sworn	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 sworn	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sworn	aux
15	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 give	mark
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 sworn	xcomp
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 give	iobj
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 comer	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 comer	det
21	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 comer	amod
22	comer	comer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 keep	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 keep	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 keep	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 keep	aux
27	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 begged	parataxis
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 word	nmod:poss
29	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 keep	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 keep	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	the princess				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
2	pray	past	the princess not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	say speech: assert	past	the king				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	swear	present · perfect	I				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	give	to-infinitive	I not said here		you	to the first comer	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Theme to comer=Recipient
6	keep	future	I	my word			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
7	word		my				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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