Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 39
And as soon as the Frog sat on the chair he jumped on to the table and said, "Now push thy plate near me, that we may eat together."
Who acts: Frog, King, we · What happens: sit, jump on, say, push, eat · To what, where: chair, table, plate · 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 (Frog, King, we), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 jumped | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 jumped | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 sat | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Frog | det |
| 6 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | nsubj |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 jumped | advcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 chair | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chair | det |
| 10 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 jumped | nsubj |
| 12 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 jumped | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 table | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 table | det |
| 16 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 jumped | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 jumped | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 push | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 push | punct |
| 21 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 push | advmod |
| 22 | push | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 23 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 plate | nmod:poss |
| 24 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 push | obj |
| 25 | near | near | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 push | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 eat | punct |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 eat | mark |
| 29 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 eat | nsubj |
| 30 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 eat | aux |
| 31 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 push | conj |
| 32 | together | together | ADV | _ | 31 eat | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 jumped | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the Frog | the chair | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location | ||||
| 2 | jump on | past | King | the table | soon property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to table=Destination | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | push in a quote | present | thy plate | now | near King | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent plate=Theme near i=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | eat in a quote | may | we | together property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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