Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 42
At this speech the King's daughter began to cry, for she was afraid of the cold Frog, and dared not touch him; and besides, he actually wanted to sleep in her own beautiful, clean bed!
Who acts: daughter, frog, King · What happens: begin, cry, be, not dare, not touch, beside · To what, where: speech, King, own beautiful clean bed
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 speech | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 speech | det |
| 3 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 began | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 King | case |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 cry | mark |
| 10 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 afraid | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 afraid | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 afraid | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 afraid | cop |
| 15 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cry | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Frog | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Frog | det |
| 18 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Frog | amod |
| 19 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 afraid | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dared | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dared | cc |
| 22 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 began | conj |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 dared | advmod |
| 24 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 dared | xcomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 touch | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 besides | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 besides | cc |
| 28 | besides | beside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 began | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 wanted | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 wanted | nsubj |
| 31 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 32 wanted | advmod |
| 32 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 besides | ccomp |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 sleep | mark |
| 34 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 wanted | xcomp |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 bed | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 bed | nmod:poss |
| 37 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 bed | amod |
| 38 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 bed | amod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 beautiful | punct |
| 40 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 bed | amod |
| 41 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sleep | obl |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the King's daughter | this speech | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | the King's daughter not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | frog | of the cold Frog; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not dare | past | the King's daughter not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not touch | infinitive | the King's daughter not said here | King | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme | ||||
| 6 | beside | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | want | past | King | actually property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 8 | sleep not said to happen | to-infinitive | King not said here | frog's own beautiful clean bed | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
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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