Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 47
But as he fell he was changed from a Frog into a handsome Prince with beautiful eyes, who after a little while became her dear companion and betrothed.
Who acts: King, beautiful eyes · What happens: fall, change, become, betroth · To what, where: King, dear companion
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 (King, beautiful eyes), 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 | _ | 4 fell | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 fell | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 changed | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 changed | aux:pass |
| 7 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fell | ccomp |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Frog | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Frog | det |
| 10 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 changed | obl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 Prince | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Prince | det |
| 13 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Prince | amod |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 changed | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 eyes | case |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eyes | amod |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 changed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 became | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 became | nsubj |
| 20 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 24 became | mark |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 while | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 while | amod |
| 23 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 became | nsubj |
| 24 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 companion | nmod:poss |
| 26 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 companion | amod |
| 27 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 became | xcomp |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 betrothed | cc |
| 29 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 companion | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | King | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | change | past · passive | King | from a Frog; into a handsome Prince result; with beautiful eyes | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.material PP.result»: subject=Patient from frog=Initial_State into prince=Result | ||||
| 3 | become | past | beautiful eyes | frog's dear companion | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | betroth | participle | beautiful eyes not said here | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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