Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 15
"Oh, I will promise you all," said she, "if you will only get me my golden ball."
Who acts: frog, you · What happens: promise, say, get · To what, where: you, golden ball, frog · 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 (frog, you), 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 | _ | 6 promise | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 promise | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 promise | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 promise | aux |
| 6 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 promise | iobj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 promise | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 promise | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 get | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 get | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 get | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 get | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 get | aux |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 get | advmod |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 get | obj |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 ball | nmod:poss |
| 22 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ball | amod |
| 23 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 get | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 get | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise in a quote | future | frog | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | frog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | my golden ball | frog | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary ball=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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