Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 15
The frog called after her, ‘Stay, princess, and take me with you as you said,’ But she did not stop to hear a word.
Who acts: frog, you, princess · What happens: call, stay, take, say, ', not stop · To what, where: frog, princess, me, word · 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 (frog, you, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 frog | det |
| 2 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Stay | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 frog | acl |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Stay | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Stay | punct |
| 8 | Stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 princess | punct |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Stay | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 take | cc |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Stay | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 take | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 take | obl |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 said | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ’ | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Stay | conj |
| 22 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 stop | cc |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 stop | nsubj |
| 24 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 stop | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 stop | advmod |
| 26 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Stay | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 hear | mark |
| 28 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 stop | xcomp |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 word | det |
| 30 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hear | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the frog not said here | after princess | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stay | infinitive | the frog | princess | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | the frog not said here | me | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | ' | infinitive | the frog not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | not stop | past · do-support | princess | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | hear | to-infinitive | princess not said here | a word | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
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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