Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 6
Then she began to lament, and to cry more loudly and more loudly; and, as she cried, a voice called out, "Why weepest thou, O King's daughter? thy tears would melt even a stone to pity."
Who acts: she, daughter · What happens: begin, lament, cry, call out, weep, melt · To what, where: voice, thou, stone · 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 (she, daughter), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 lament | mark |
| 5 | lament | lament | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cry | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cry | cc |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 cry | mark |
| 9 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lament | conj |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 loudly | advmod |
| 11 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 9 cry | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 loudly | cc |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 loudly | advmod |
| 14 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 11 loudly | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 melt | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 melt | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 and | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 cried | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cried | nsubj |
| 20 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 melt | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 voice | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 voice | det |
| 23 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cried | obl |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 voice | acl |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 called | compound:prt |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 weepest | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 weepest | punct |
| 28 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 weepest | advmod |
| 29 | weepest | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 cried | conj |
| 30 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 weepest | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cried | punct |
| 32 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 King | compound |
| 33 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 King | case |
| 35 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 melt | nsubj |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 35 daughter | punct |
| 37 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 38 tears | nmod:poss |
| 38 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 melt | nsubj |
| 39 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 melt | aux |
| 40 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | advcl |
| 41 | even | even | ADV | _ | 43 stone | advmod |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 stone | det |
| 43 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 melt | obl |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 pity | mark |
| 45 | pity | pity | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 stone | acl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | she | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | lament | to-infinitive | she not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | she not said here | loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | she | a voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | call out speech: assert | participle | a voice not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | weep in a quote | present | she not said here | thou | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | ||||
| 7 | melt in a quote | would | O King's daughter | a stone | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 8 | pity in a quote | to-infinitive | O King's daughter not said here | a stone not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: 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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