Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 18
Then the Frog, as soon as he had received her promise, drew his head under the water and dived down.
Who acts: playmate, promise, frog · What happens: receive, draw, dive down, promise · To what, where: promise, head, water
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 (playmate, promise, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 Frog | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Frog | det |
| 3 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Frog | punct |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 soon | advmod |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 Frog | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 received | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 received | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 received | aux |
| 10 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 soon | advcl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 promise | nmod:poss |
| 12 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 received | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drew | punct |
| 14 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 promise | acl:relcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drew | obj |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 water | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 water | det |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drew | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dived | cc |
| 21 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 drew | conj |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 dived | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Frog | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past · perfect | playmate | frog's promise | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | ||||
| 2 | draw | past | frog's promise not said here | playmate's head | the water | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 3 | dive down | past | frog's promise not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | promise | frog | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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