Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 20
The King's daughter was full of joy when she again saw her beautiful plaything; and, taking it up, she ran off immediately. "
Who acts: daughter, frog · What happens: be, see, take up, run off · To what, where: beautiful plaything, 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 (daughter, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 full | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 full | cop |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 joy | case |
| 8 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 full | obl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 saw | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 saw | advmod |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 full | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 plaything | nmod:poss |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 plaything | amod |
| 15 | plaything | plaything | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 ran | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ran | cc |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 taking | punct |
| 19 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 ran | csubj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 taking | obj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 taking | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 taking | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 ran | nsubj |
| 24 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 full | conj |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 ran | compound:prt |
| 26 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 24 ran | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 full | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King's daughter | of joy; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | frog | frog's beautiful plaything | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plaything=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | take up | gerund | plaything | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 4 | run off | past | frog | immediately property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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