Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 38
So the King's daughter went and opened the door, and the Frog hopped in after her right up to her chair: and as soon as she was seated, he said, "Lift me up;" but she hesitated so long that the King had to order her to obey.
Who acts: daughter, Frog, King · What happens: go, open, hop in, seat, say, lift up · To what, where: door, chair, frog, 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 (daughter, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 King | case |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 opened | cc |
| 8 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 opened | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hopped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hopped | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Frog | det |
| 14 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 hopped | nsubj |
| 15 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADV | _ | 15 hopped | advmod |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hopped | obl |
| 19 | right | right | ADV | _ | 23 chair | advmod |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 chair | case |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 chair | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 chair | nmod:poss |
| 23 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hopped | obl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 said | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 said | cc |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | _ | 27 soon | advmod |
| 27 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 said | advmod |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 seated | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 seated | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 seated | aux:pass |
| 31 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 said | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 seated | punct |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 said | nsubj |
| 34 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Lift | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 Lift | punct |
| 37 | Lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 said | xcomp |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 Lift | obj |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 37 Lift | compound:prt |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 42 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 hesitated | cc |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 hesitated | nsubj |
| 44 | hesitated | hesitate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 45 | so | so | ADV | _ | 46 long | advmod |
| 46 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 hesitated | xcomp |
| 47 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 50 had | mark |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 King | det |
| 49 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 had | nsubj |
| 50 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 long | advcl |
| 51 | to | to | PART | _ | 52 order | mark |
| 52 | order | order | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 had | xcomp |
| 53 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 order | obj |
| 54 | to | to | PART | _ | 55 obey | mark |
| 55 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 order | xcomp |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the King's daughter | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | open | past | the King's daughter not said here | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hop in | past | the Frog | frog's chair | after paddler | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up chair=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | seat | past · passive | frog | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | King | soon property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | lift up in a quote | infinitive | King not said here | King | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 7 | hesitate | past | frog | long property | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | have | past | the King | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | order | to-infinitive | the King not said here | frog | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 10 | obey not said to happen | to-infinitive | the King not said here | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: 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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