Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 28

As soon as she had done this, the frog said, ‘Put your plate nearer to me, that I may eat out of it.’

Who acts: princess, frog, I · What happens: do, say, put, eat out · To what, where: this, plate, me · 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, I), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 said	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 done	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 done	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 soon	advcl
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 done	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 soon	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 frog	det
10	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Put	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 Put	punct
14	Put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 plate	nmod:poss
16	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Put	obj
17	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 Put	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 Put	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 eat	punct
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 eat	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 eat	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 eat	aux
24	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 Put	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	27 it	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 eat	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	princess	this			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	the frog			soon property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	put	infinitive		your plate	me	near property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent plate=Goal
4	eat out	may	I	plate			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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