Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 4

Now, one day it happened that this golden ball, when the King's daughter threw it into the air, did not fall down into her hand, but on to the grass; and then it rolled right into the fountain.

Who acts: it, daughter, ball · What happens: happen, throw, not fall down, roll · To what, where: ball, air, hand, fountain

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 (it, daughter, ball), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 happened	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 happened	obl:unmarked
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 happened	nsubj
6	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 ball	mark
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 ball	det
9	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ball	amod
10	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 happened	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 threw	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 threw	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 King	det
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 daughter	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 King	case
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 threw	nsubj
17	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ball	acl:relcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 threw	obj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 air	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 air	det
21	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 threw	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fall	punct
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 fall	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 fall	advmod
25	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 happened	conj
26	down	down	ADV	_	25 fall	advmod
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 hand	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hand	nmod:poss
29	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fall	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 grass	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 grass	cc
32	on	on	ADP	_	35 grass	case
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 grass	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 grass	det
35	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fall	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 rolled	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 rolled	cc
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 rolled	advmod
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 rolled	nsubj
40	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happened	parataxis
41	right	right	ADV	_	44 fountain	advmod
42	into	into	ADP	_	44 fountain	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 fountain	det
44	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 rolled	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it			now; day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	throw	past	the King's daughter	ball			into the air result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into air=Result
3	not fall down	past · do-support			her hand		on the grass; down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on grass=Location
4	roll	past	ball		the fountain	then		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into fountain=Destination

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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