Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 12
So she said to the frog, ‘Well, if you will bring me my ball, I will do all you ask.’
Who acts: princess, you, I · What happens: say, bring, do, ask · To what, where: ball, me, all · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (princess, you, I), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 frog | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 frog | det |
| 6 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bring | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 bring | punct |
| 9 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 14 bring | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Well | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 bring | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 bring | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 bring | aux |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 bring | iobj |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 ball | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 bring | conj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 do | obj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 ask | nsubj |
| 24 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 all | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 bring | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | princess | to the frog | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to frog=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bring a condition, not said to happen | future | you | my ball | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination ball=Theme | |||
| 3 | do | future | I | all | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | present | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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