Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 23
But this croaking was of no avail; although it was loud enough, the King's daughter did not hear it, but, hastening home, soon forgot the poor Frog, who was obliged to leap back into the fountain.
Who acts: croaking, daughter · What happens: be, not hear, hasten, forget, oblige, leap back · To what, where: croaking, poor Frog, fountain
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 (croaking, daughter), 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 | _ | 7 avail | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 croaking | det |
| 3 | croaking | croaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 avail | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 avail | cop |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 avail | case |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 avail | det |
| 7 | avail | avail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 hear | punct |
| 9 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 12 loud | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 loud | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 loud | cop |
| 12 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hear | advcl |
| 13 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 12 loud | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 loud | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 King | case |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hear | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 hear | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 hear | advmod |
| 21 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 avail | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hear | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hastening | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 hastening | cc |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hastening | punct |
| 26 | hastening | hasten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 hear | advcl |
| 27 | home | home | ADV | _ | 26 hastening | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 forgot | punct |
| 29 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 forgot | advmod |
| 30 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 hastening | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Frog | det |
| 32 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Frog | amod |
| 33 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 forgot | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 obliged | punct |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 obliged | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 obliged | aux:pass |
| 37 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 Frog | acl:relcl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 leap | mark |
| 39 | leap | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 obliged | xcomp |
| 40 | back | back | ADV | _ | 39 leap | advmod |
| 41 | into | into | ADP | _ | 43 fountain | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 fountain | det |
| 43 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 leap | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 avail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this croaking | of no avail | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | croaking | enough, loud property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not hear | past · do-support | the King's daughter | croaking | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hasten | gerund | the King's daughter not said here | home property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | forget | past | the King's daughter not said here | the poor Frog | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | oblige | past · passive | the poor Frog | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 7 | leap back | to-infinitive | the fountain | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into fountain=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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