Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 27

She did so, and the frog hopped into the room, and then straight on--tap, tap--plash, plash--from the bottom of the room to the top, till he came up close to the table where the princess sat. ‘Pray lift me upon chair,’ said he to the princess, ‘and let me sit next to you.’

Who acts: princess, frog, father, princess sat., me · What happens: do, hop, come up, lift, say, let · To what, where: room, table, me, chair, princess, you · 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, frog, father, princess sat.), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	2 did	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hopped	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hopped	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 frog	det
7	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hopped	nsubj
8	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 room	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 room	det
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hopped	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tap	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tap	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 on	advmod
15	straight	straight	ADV	_	16 on	advmod
16	on	on	ADV	_	18 tap	advmod
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 tap	punct
18	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tap	punct
20	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tap	conj
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 plash	punct
22	plash	plash	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tap	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 plash	punct
24	plash	plash	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 plash	conj
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 bottom	punct
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 bottom	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bottom	det
28	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	parataxis
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 room	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 room	det
31	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bottom	nmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 top	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 top	det
34	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 came	punct
36	till	till	SCONJ	_	38 came	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 came	nsubj
38	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
39	up	up	ADV	_	38 came	advmod
40	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 table	advmod
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 table	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 table	det
43	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 came	obl
44	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	50 lift	advmod
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 sat.	det
46	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 sat.	compound
47	sat.	Saturday	PROPN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	50 lift	nsubj
48	‘	'	PUNCT	_	49 Pray	punct
49	Pray	Pray	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 sat.	conj
50	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 table	acl:relcl
51	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 lift	obj
52	upon	upon	ADP	_	53 chair	case
53	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 lift	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 said	punct
55	’	'	PUNCT	_	56 said	punct
56	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 came	parataxis
57	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 said	nsubj
58	to	to	ADP	_	60 princess	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 princess	det
60	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 said	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 ‘	punct
62	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 princess	conj
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 let	cc
64	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 said	conj
65	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	64 let	obj
66	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 let	xcomp
67	next	next	ADV	_	66 sit	advmod
68	to	to	ADP	_	69 you	case
69	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	66 sit	obl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct
71	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	princess				to the top	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hop	past	the frog			the room		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into room=Destination
3	come up	past	father			the table		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to table=Initial_Location
4	lift	infinitive	the princess sat. and Pray	me		chair		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme upon chair=Destination
5	say speech: assert	past	father		the princess and ‘			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to princess=Recipient
6	let	infinitive	father not said here	me				tree rules
7	sit	infinitive	me not said here		you		next property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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