Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 30

"Oh, dear father, yesterday when I was playing by the fountain, my golden ball fell into the water, and this Frog fetched it up again because I cried so much: but first, I must tell you, he pressed me so much, that I promised him he should be my companion.

Who acts: I, dear father, Frog, King · What happens: play, fall, fetch up, cry, tell, press · To what, where: water, ball, King, me, companion · 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 (I, dear father, Frog, King), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 father	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 father	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 father	amod
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fell	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 yesterday	punct
7	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 father	appos
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 playing	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 playing	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 playing	aux
11	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 father	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 fountain	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fountain	det
14	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 playing	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fell	punct
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 ball	nmod:poss
17	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ball	amod
18	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fell	nsubj
19	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 water	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 water	det
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fell	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fetched	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fetched	cc
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 Frog	det
26	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 fetched	nsubj
27	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fell	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fetched	obj
29	up	up	ADP	_	27 fetched	compound:prt
30	again	again	ADV	_	27 fetched	advmod
31	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 cried	mark
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 cried	nsubj
33	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fetched	advcl
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 much	advmod
35	much	much	ADV	_	33 cried	advmod
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	42 tell	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 tell	cc
38	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	42 tell	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 tell	punct
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 tell	nsubj
41	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 tell	aux
42	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 fell	conj
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 tell	iobj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 pressed	punct
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 pressed	nsubj
46	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fell	parataxis
47	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 pressed	obj
48	so	so	ADV	_	49 much	advmod
49	much	much	ADV	_	46 pressed	advmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 promised	punct
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 promised	mark
52	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 promised	nsubj
53	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 pressed	conj
54	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 promised	iobj
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 companion	nsubj
56	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 companion	aux
57	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	59 companion	cop
58	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 companion	nmod:poss
59	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 promised	ccomp
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	play in a quote	past · progressive	I				by the fountain	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fall in a quote	past	dear father				into the water result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result
3	fetch up in a quote	past	this Frog	ball		again		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	cry speech: express in a quote	past	I					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	must	I		King		first property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6	press in a quote	past	King	me				vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent i=Result
7	promise speech: promise in a quote	past	I		King			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	is a in a quote	should	King	my companion				tree rules

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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