Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 30
And the princess, though very unwilling, took him up in her hand, and put him upon the pillow of her own bed, where he slept all night long.
Who acts: princess, father · What happens: take up, put, sleep · To what, where: father, hand, pillow
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, father), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 unwilling | punct |
| 5 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 7 unwilling | mark |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 unwilling | advmod |
| 7 | unwilling | unwilling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 princess | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 princess | punct |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 took | compound:prt |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 put | cc |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 took | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 put | obj |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 pillow | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pillow | det |
| 21 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 bed | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 bed | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bed | amod |
| 25 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pillow | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 slept | punct |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 slept | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 slept | nsubj |
| 29 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 put | parataxis |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 night | det |
| 31 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 slept | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 slept | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | the princess | father | princess's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | the princess not said here | father | the pillow of princess's own bed | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme upon pillow=Destination | |||
| 3 | sleep | past | father | night | long property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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