Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 2

Now she had a golden ball in her hand, which was her favourite plaything; and she was always tossing it up into the air, and catching it again as it fell.

Who acts: princess, hand, ball · What happens: have, be, toss up, catch, fall · To what, where: golden ball, hand, favourite plaything, ball, air

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, hand, ball), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 had	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ball	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ball	amod
6	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 hand	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hand	nmod:poss
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 plaything	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 plaything	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 plaything	cop
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 plaything	nmod:poss
14	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 plaything	amod
15	plaything	plaything	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hand	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 tossing	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tossing	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tossing	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tossing	aux
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 tossing	advmod
21	tossing	toss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 had	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tossing	obj
23	up	up	ADP	_	21 tossing	compound:prt
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 air	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 air	det
26	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tossing	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 catching	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 catching	cc
29	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 tossing	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 catching	obj
31	again	again	ADV	_	29 catching	advmod
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 fell	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 fell	nsubj
34	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 catching	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	princess	a golden ball	princess's hand and princess's favourite plaything	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Patient
2	is a	past	princess's hand and princess's favourite plaything	princess's favourite plaything				tree rules
3	toss up	past · progressive	princess	ball	the air		always property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Patient into air=Recipient
4	catch	gerund	princess not said here	ball		again		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	fall	past	ball					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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