Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 26
Then the king said to the young princess, ‘As you have given your word you must keep it; so go and let him in.’
Who acts: king, you, your · What happens: say, give, keep, go, let in, word · To what, where: word, father · 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 (king, you, your), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 princess | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 princess | amod |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 given | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 given | punct |
| 11 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 given | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 given | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 given | aux |
| 14 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 said | conj |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 word | nmod:poss |
| 16 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 given | obj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 keep | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 keep | aux |
| 19 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 given | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 keep | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 go | advmod |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 let | cc |
| 25 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 go | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 let | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 let | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | then | to the young princess | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to princess=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | give | present · perfect | you | your word | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | must | you | word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | let in | infinitive | father | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 6 | word | your | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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