Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 10
‘What nonsense,’ thought the princess, ‘this silly frog is talking!
Who acts: nonsense, silly frog · What happens: nonsense, think, talk · To what, where: princess
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» 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 (nonsense, silly 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 nonsense | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 nonsense | nsubj |
| 3 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nonsense | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 nonsense | punct |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 talking | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 talking | punct |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 frog | det |
| 12 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 frog | amod |
| 13 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 talking | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 talking | aux |
| 15 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 thought | conj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nonsense | tree rules | |||||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | nonsense | the princess | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot princess=Theme | ||||
| 3 | talk | present · progressive | this silly frog | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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