Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 3
After a time she threw it up so high that she missed catching it as it fell; and the ball bounded away, and rolled along upon the ground, till at last it fell down into the spring.
Who acts: princess, ball · What happens: throw up, miss, catch, fall, bound away, roll · To what, where: ball, ground, last
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, ball), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 threw | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 threw | nsubj |
| 5 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 threw | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 threw | compound:prt |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 high | advmod |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 threw | advcl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 missed | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 missed | nsubj |
| 12 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 high | advcl |
| 13 | catching | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 missed | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 catching | obj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 fell | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 catching | advcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 ball | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ball | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ball | det |
| 21 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 threw | obl |
| 22 | bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 ball | acl |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 bounded | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 rolled | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 rolled | cc |
| 26 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 threw | parataxis |
| 27 | along | along | ADV | _ | 26 rolled | advmod |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 30 ground | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ground | det |
| 30 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rolled | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 fell | punct |
| 32 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 36 fell | mark |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 last | case |
| 34 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 fell | obl |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 fell | nsubj |
| 36 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 rolled | conj |
| 37 | down | down | ADV | _ | 36 fell | advmod |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 spring | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 spring | det |
| 40 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fell | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw up | past | princess | ball | time | the ball obl | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||
| 2 | miss | past | princess | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | catch | gerund | princess not said here | ball | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | ball | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bound away | participle | the ball not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | roll | participle | the ground | along property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon ground=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | fall down | past | ball | last | spring | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
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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