Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 9
I am weeping for my golden ball which bounced away from me into the water."
Who acts: I, golden ball · What happens: weep, bounce away · To what, where: 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 (I, golden ball), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 weeping | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 weeping | aux |
| 3 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 ball | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ball | nmod:poss |
| 6 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ball | amod |
| 7 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 weeping | obl |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 bounced | nsubj |
| 9 | bounced | bounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ball | acl:relcl |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 bounced | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 bounced | obl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bounced | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 weeping | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 weeping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | present · progressive | I | for my golden ball | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bounce away | past | my golden ball | the water | from me; away property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme from i=Source into water=Trajectory |
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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