Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 19

Presently he swam up again with the golden ball in his mouth, and threw it on to the grass.

Who acts: playmate · What happens: swim up, throw on · To what, where: mouth, grass

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), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	3 swam	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swam	nsubj
3	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 swam	compound:prt
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 swam	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 ball	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ball	det
8	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ball	amod
9	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swam	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 mouth	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mouth	nmod:poss
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ball	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 threw	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 threw	cc
15	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swam	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 threw	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	15 threw	compound:prt
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 grass	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 grass	det
20	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 threw	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim up	past	playmate				again	with the golden ball in playmate's mouth; presently property	vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with ball=Theme
2	throw on	past	playmate not said here	mouth		the grass			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme to grass=Destination

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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