Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 14
As soon as the young princess saw her ball, she ran to pick it up; and she was so overjoyed to have it in her hand again, that she never thought of the frog, but ran home with it as fast as she could.
Who acts: young princess, princess · What happens: see, run, pick up, overjoy, have, not think · To what, where: ball, princess, hand
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 (young princess, princess), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 saw | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 saw | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 princess | amod |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ball | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ran | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ran | nsubj |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 pick | mark |
| 14 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ran | xcomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pick | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 pick | compound:prt |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 overjoyed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 overjoyed | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 overjoyed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 overjoyed | aux:pass |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 overjoyed | advmod |
| 22 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 saw | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 have | mark |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 overjoyed | xcomp |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 have | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 hand | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hand | nmod:poss |
| 28 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 have | obl |
| 29 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 have | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 thought | punct |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 thought | mark |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 thought | nsubj |
| 33 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 34 thought | advmod |
| 34 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 overjoyed | advcl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 frog | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 frog | det |
| 37 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 thought | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 ran | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 ran | cc |
| 40 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | conj |
| 41 | home | home | ADV | _ | 40 ran | advmod |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 it | case |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 ran | obl |
| 44 | as | as | ADV | _ | 45 fast | advmod |
| 45 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 40 ran | advmod |
| 46 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 48 could | mark |
| 47 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 could | nsubj |
| 48 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 fast | advcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the young princess | princess's ball | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ball=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | run | past | princess | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | pick up | to-infinitive | princess not said here | ball | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 4 | overjoy | past · passive | princess | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | have | to-infinitive | ball | princess's hand | again | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 6 | not think speech: other | past | princess | of the frog | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | run | past | the young princess not said here | with ball; fast, home property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with it=Material |
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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