Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 11
But what wilt thou give me if I succeed in fetching thy plaything up again?"
Who acts: thou, I · What happens: give, succeed, fetch up · To what, where: me, plaything
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 (thou, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 give | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 give | obj |
| 3 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 give | nsubj |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 succeed | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 succeed | nsubj |
| 9 | succeed | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 fetching | mark |
| 11 | fetching | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 succeed | advcl |
| 12 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 plaything | nmod:poss |
| 13 | plaything | plaything | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fetching | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 fetching | compound:prt |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 fetching | advmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | thou | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Theme | ||||
| 2 | succeed a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fetch up | gerund | I not said here | thy plaything | again | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plaything=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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