Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 45

But as she lay in her bed, he crept up to it, and said, "I am so very tired that I shall sleep well; do take me up, or I will tell thy father."

Who acts: frog, King · What happens: lie, creep up, say, be, sleep, take up · To what, where: bed, King, father · 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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 crept	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 lay	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 crept	advcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 bed	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bed	nmod:poss
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 crept	nsubj
10	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 crept	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 crept	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 crept	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tired	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 tired	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 tired	nsubj
20	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 tired	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 tired	advmod
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 tired	advmod
23	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	ccomp
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 sleep	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 sleep	nsubj
26	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 sleep	aux
27	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 tired	advcl
28	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 sleep	advmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 take	punct
30	do	do	PART	_	31 take	mark
31	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 crept	parataxis
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 take	obj
33	up	up	ADP	_	31 take	compound:prt
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 tell	punct
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 tell	cc
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 tell	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 tell	aux
38	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 take	conj
39	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	40 father	nmod:poss
40	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 tell	iobj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 take	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	frog		frog's bed		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
2	creep up	past	King	bed			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	King not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	King			tired property	tree rules
5	sleep in a quote	shall	King			well property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	take up in a quote	infinitive		King			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
7	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	King	thy father			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient

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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