Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 29
This she did, and when he had eaten as much as he could, he said, ‘Now I am tired; carry me upstairs, and put me into your bed.’
Who acts: father, I · What happens: eat, say, be, carry, put · To what, where: much, me, bed · 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, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 carry | aux |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 eaten | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 eaten | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 eaten | aux |
| 9 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 said | advcl |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eaten | obj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 could | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 could | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 much | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eaten | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tired | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 tired | punct |
| 20 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 tired | advmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 tired | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 tired | cop |
| 23 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 said | ccomp |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 carry | punct |
| 25 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 carry | obj |
| 27 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 25 carry | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 put | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 put | cc |
| 30 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 carry | conj |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 put | obj |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 bed | case |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 bed | nmod:poss |
| 34 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 put | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 carry | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · perfect | father | much | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | I | now | tired property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | carry | past · do-support | me | upstairs property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 5 | put | infinitive | me | your bed | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Goal |
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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