--- title: Then the Prince begged for their release, till at last the Dwarf bro… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Then the Prince begged for their release, till at last the Dwarf brought them out; but he warned the youngest to beware of them, for they had evil in their hearts. Who acts: Prince, Dwarf, sword. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life, with its dependency tree and th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/36/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimm's Fairy Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/) / [The Water of Life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/) / 36 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 36 Then the Prince begged for their release, till at last the Dwarf brought them out; but he warned the youngest to beware of them, for they had evil in their hearts. **Who acts:** Prince, Dwarf, sword · **What happens:** beg, bring out, warn, beware, have · **To what, where:** sword, last, evil, hearts · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» 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, Dwarf, sword), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11027:17:36 # text = Then the Prince begged for their release, till at last the Dwarf brought them out; but he warned the youngest to beware of them, for they had evil in their hearts. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 release release NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 till till SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 obl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Dwarf Dwarf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 warned warn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 20 ccomp _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 beware beware VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 31 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 hearts heart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the Prince | | | | then | for sword's release | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for release=Topic | | 2 | **bring out** | past | the Dwarf | sword | | last | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 3 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past | Prince | | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **beware** | to-infinitive | | | | | | of sword | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **have** | past | sword | evil | | sword's hearts | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Patient | 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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/37/) - ↑ back to [The Water of Life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/)