Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 16
But she thought to herself, "What is the silly Frog chattering about?
Who acts: frog, silly Frog · What happens: think, be · To what, where: 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, silly 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 thought | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 herself | case |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 thought | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 chattering | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 chattering | punct |
| 8 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 chattering | obj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 chattering | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Frog | det |
| 11 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Frog | amod |
| 12 | Frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 chattering | nsubj |
| 13 | chattering | chatter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 thought | advcl |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 chattering | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | frog | frog | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the silly Frog | about, chatter property | tree rules |
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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