Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 33
But she was mistaken; for when night came again she heard the same tapping at the door; and the frog came once more, and said:
Who acts: princess, night, frog · What happens: be, come, hear, say · To what, where: same tapping, door · 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, night, frog), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 mistaken | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mistaken | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mistaken | cop |
| 4 | mistaken | mistaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 mistaken | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 came | advmod |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mistaken | advcl |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tapping | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tapping | amod |
| 15 | tapping | tapping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 door | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 came | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 frog | det |
| 22 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 said | advcl |
| 24 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 25 more | advmod |
| 25 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 came | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 said | cc |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mistaken | parataxis |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 mistaken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | princess | mistaken property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | night | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | princess | the same tapping | the door | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tapping=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | come | past | the frog | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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