Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 10
"Be quiet, and do not cry," replied the Frog; "I can give thee good assistance.
Who acts: you, Frog · What happens: be, not cry, reply, give · To what, where: good assistance, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Frog Prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Frog), 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 | _ | 3 quiet | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 quiet | cop |
| 3 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cry | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cry | cc |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 cry | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 cry | advmod |
| 8 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 quiet | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 quiet | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Frog | det |
| 13 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 give | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 give | aux |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | conj |
| 19 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 give | iobj |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 assistance | amod |
| 21 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 quiet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | imperative | you not said here | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not cry speech: express in a quote | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the Frog | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | give in a quote | can | the Frog = frog | good assistance | thee | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient assistance=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: «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.
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