Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 37
Then the King said, "What you have promised, that you must perform; go and let him in."
Who acts: King, you · What happens: say, promise, perform, go, let in · To what, where: King · 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 (King, you), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 promised | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 promised | punct |
| 7 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 promised | obj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 promised | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 promised | aux |
| 10 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 perform | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 perform | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 perform | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 perform | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 perform | aux |
| 15 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 perform | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 let | cc |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 perform | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 let | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 let | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 perform | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 perform | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise in a quote | present · perfect | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 3 | perform in a quote | must | you | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | let in in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | King | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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