Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 7
She looked around to the spot whence the voice came, and saw a frog stretching his thick, ugly head out of the water. "
Who acts: She, voice, frog · What happens: look around, come, see, stretch · To what, where: frog, thick ugly head, water
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, voice, frog), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | around | around | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 spot | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 spot | det |
| 6 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 7 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 came | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 voice | det |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spot | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 frog | det |
| 15 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 16 | stretching | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 frog | acl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 head | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thick | punct |
| 20 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 head | amod |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stretching | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 water | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 water | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 water | det |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stretching | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look around | past | She | to the spot; around property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to spot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the voice | whence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | She not said here | a frog | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer frog=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | stretch | gerund | a frog not said here | voice's thick ugly head | the water | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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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