Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 50
The faithful Henry (who was also the trusty Henry) helped in the bride and bridegroom, and placed himself in the seat behind, full of joy at his master's release.
Who acts: faithful Henry · What happens: be, help, place · To what, where: trusty Henry, Henry, seat
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 (faithful Henry), 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 | 3 Henry | det |
| 2 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Henry | amod |
| 3 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 helped | nsubj |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 Henry | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 Henry | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Henry | cop |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 Henry | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Henry | det |
| 9 | trusty | trusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Henry | amod |
| 10 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Henry | appos |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 Henry | punct |
| 12 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 bride | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bride | det |
| 15 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 helped | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bridegroom | cc |
| 17 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bride | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 placed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 placed | cc |
| 20 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 helped | conj |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 placed | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 seat | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 seat | det |
| 24 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 placed | obl |
| 25 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 20 placed | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 full | punct |
| 27 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 placed | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 joy | case |
| 29 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 full | obl |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 release | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 master | nmod:poss |
| 32 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 release | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 master | case |
| 34 | release | release | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 full | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 helped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the faithful Henry | the trusty Henry | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | past | the faithful Henry | in the bride and bridegroom | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | place | past | the faithful Henry not said here | Henry | the seat | behind property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in seat=Destination |
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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