Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 46
This speech put the King's daughter into a terrible passion, and catching the Frog up, she threw him with all her strength against the wall, saying "Now will you be quiet, you ugly Frog!"
Who acts: speech, frog, you · What happens: put, catch up, throw, say, be · To what, where: daughter, terrible passion, 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 (speech, frog, you), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 speech | det |
| 2 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | 3 put | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 passion | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 passion | det |
| 10 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 passion | amod |
| 11 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 catching | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 catching | cc |
| 14 | catching | catch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 put | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Frog | det |
| 16 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 catching | obj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 catching | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 threw | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 threw | nsubj |
| 20 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 threw | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 strength | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 strength | det:predet |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 strength | nmod:poss |
| 25 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 threw | obl |
| 26 | against | against | ADP | _ | 28 wall | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wall | det |
| 28 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 strength | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 saying | punct |
| 30 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 quiet | csubj |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 Now | punct |
| 32 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 saying | advmod |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 quiet | aux |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 quiet | nsubj |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 quiet | cop |
| 36 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 threw | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Frog | punct |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 Frog | nsubj |
| 39 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 Frog | amod |
| 40 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 quiet | obl |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 40 Frog | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | this speech | the King's daughter | a terrible passion | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent daughter=Goal | |||
| 2 | catch up | gerund | this speech not said here | the Frog | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | frog | King | with frog's strength against the wall | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: express | gerund | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | future | you | ugly Frog obl; quiet property | tree rules |
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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