Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 16
The next day, just as the princess had sat down to dinner, she heard a strange noise--tap, tap--plash, plash--as if something was coming up the marble staircase: and soon afterwards there was a gentle knock at the door, and a little voice cried out and said:
Who acts: princess, something, little voice · What happens: sit down, hear, come up, be, cry out, say · To what, where: princess, strange noise, marble staircase, gentle knock, door · 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, something, little voice), 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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sat | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 princess | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 princess | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sat | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sat | aux |
| 10 | sat | sit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 sat | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 dinner | case |
| 13 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sat | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 heard | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 heard | nsubj |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sat | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 noise | det |
| 18 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 noise | amod |
| 19 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heard | obj |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 tap | punct |
| 21 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 noise | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tap | punct |
| 23 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 noise | conj |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 plash | punct |
| 25 | plash | plash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 noise | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 plash | punct |
| 27 | plash | plash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 plash | conj |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 coming | punct |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 coming | mark |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 coming | mark |
| 31 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 33 coming | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 coming | aux |
| 33 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 heard | ccomp |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 coming | compound:prt |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 staircase | det |
| 36 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 staircase | compound |
| 37 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 coming | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 46 knock | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 knock | cc |
| 40 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 43 was | advmod |
| 41 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 43 was | advmod |
| 42 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 43 was | expl |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 knock | cop |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 knock | det |
| 45 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 knock | amod |
| 46 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sat | obl |
| 47 | at | at | ADP | _ | 49 door | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 door | det |
| 49 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 knock | nmod |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 cried | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 cried | cc |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 54 voice | det |
| 53 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 voice | amod |
| 54 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 cried | nsubj |
| 55 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sat | parataxis |
| 56 | out | out | ADP | _ | 55 cried | compound:prt |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 said | cc |
| 58 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 cried | conj |
| 59 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past · perfect · passive | the princess | day | to dinner | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hear | past | princess | a strange noise and tap and tap | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come up a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | something | the marble staircase | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | a gentle knock | the door | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | cry out speech: express | past | a little voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | a little voice not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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