Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 20
At this sight she was sadly frightened, and shutting the door as fast as she could came back to her seat.
Who acts: shutting · What happens: frighten, shut, come back · To what, where: princess, sight, door
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 (shutting), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sight | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sight | det |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 frightened | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 frightened | aux:pass |
| 6 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 7 frightened | advmod |
| 7 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 10 | shutting | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 came | csubj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shutting | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 fast | advmod |
| 14 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 shutting | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 could | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 could | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 fast | advcl |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 frightened | conj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 seat | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 seat | nmod:poss |
| 22 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 back | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | princess | this sight | sadly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | shut | gerund | the door | fast property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come back | past | shutting | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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