Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 34
‘Open the door, my princess dear, Open the door to thy true love here!
Who acts: you, thy · What happens: open, love · To what, where: door, true love
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 (you, thy), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Open | punct |
| 2 | Open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Open | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 princess | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 princess | nmod:poss |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Open | obl |
| 8 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 princess | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Open | punct |
| 10 | Open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Open | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Open | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 love | case |
| 14 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 love | nmod:poss |
| 15 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 love | amod |
| 16 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Open | obl |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 Open | advmod |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | imperative | you not said here | the door | my princess obl | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||
| 2 | open | infinitive | you not said here | the door | thy true love | here | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent door=Patient to love=Recipient | ||
| 3 | love | thy | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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