Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 21
The king, her father, seeing that something had frightened her, asked her what was the matter.
Who acts: father, king · What happens: see, frighten, ask, be · To what, where: something, princess, matter · 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 (father, king), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 father | punct |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 king | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 seeing | punct |
| 7 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 father | acl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 frightened | mark |
| 9 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 frightened | aux |
| 11 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 seeing | ccomp |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 frightened | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 king | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | iobj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 matter | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 matter | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 matter | det |
| 19 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | princess's father not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | frighten | past · perfect · passive | something | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer she=Result | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the king and princess's father | princess | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the matter | tree rules |
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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