Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 5
The King's daughter followed the ball with her eyes, but it disappeared beneath the water, which was so deep that she could not see to the bottom.
Who acts: daughter, ball, water, she · What happens: follow, disappear, be, not see · To what, where: ball
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, ball, water, she), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 followed | nsubj |
| 5 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ball | det |
| 7 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 followed | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 followed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 disappeared | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 disappeared | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 disappeared | nsubj |
| 14 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 followed | parataxis |
| 15 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 17 water | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 water | det |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 disappeared | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 deep | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 deep | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 deep | cop |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 deep | advmod |
| 22 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 water | amod |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 see | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 see | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 see | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 see | advmod |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 deep | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 bottom | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 bottom | det |
| 30 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 see | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the King's daughter | the ball | with her eyes | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | |||
| 2 | disappear | past | ball | beneath the water | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the water | deep property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not see | could | she | to the bottom | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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