Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 24

The next day, when the King's daughter was sitting at table with her father and all his courtiers, and was eating from her own little golden plate, something was heard coming up the marble stairs, splish-splash, splish-splash; and when it arrived at the top, it knocked at the door, and a voice said--

Who acts: daughter, something, plate, voice · What happens: sit, eat, hear, come up, arrive, knock · To what, where: table, own little golden plate, something, marble stairs, top · 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 (daughter, something, plate, voice), 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	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 knocked	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sitting	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 sitting	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 daughter	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 King	case
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sitting	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sitting	aux
11	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 day	acl:relcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 table	case
13	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sitting	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 father	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sitting	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 courtiers	cc
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 courtiers	det:predet
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 courtiers	nmod:poss
20	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 father	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 eating	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 eating	cc
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 eating	aux
24	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 sitting	advcl
25	from	from	ADP	_	30 plate	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 plate	nmod:poss
27	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 plate	amod
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 plate	amod
29	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 plate	amod
30	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eating	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 heard	punct
32	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 heard	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 heard	aux:pass
34	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 eating	parataxis
35	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 heard	xcomp
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 coming	compound:prt
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 stairs	det
38	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 stairs	compound
39	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 coming	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 splash	punct
41	splish	splish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 splash	amod
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 splish	punct
43	splash	splash	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 stairs	appos
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 splash	punct
45	splish	splish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 splash	amod
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 splish	punct
47	splash	splash	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 splash	conj
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	58 knocked	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 knocked	cc
50	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	52 arrived	advmod
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 arrived	nsubj
52	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 knocked	advcl
53	at	at	ADP	_	55 top	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 top	det
55	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 arrived	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 arrived	punct
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 knocked	nsubj
58	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
59	at	at	ADP	_	61 door	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 door	det
61	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 knocked	obl
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 said	punct
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 said	cc
64	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	65 voice	det
65	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 said	nsubj
66	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 knocked	conj
67	--	--	PUNCT	_	66 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	the King's daughter		table		with frog's father and King's courtiers	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location
2	eat	past · progressive	the King's daughter not said here		frog's own little golden plate			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from plate=Source
3	hear	past · passive		something				tree rules
4	come up	gerund	something not said here	the marble stairs				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	arrive	past	plate		the top			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	knock	past	plate			day	at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
7	say speech: assert	past	a voice					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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