Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 36
And when the princess opened the door the frog came in, and slept upon her pillow as before, till the morning broke.
Who acts: princess, morning · What happens: open, come in, sleep, break · To what, where: door
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, morning), 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 | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 opened | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | nsubj |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 frog | det |
| 9 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | obj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 slept | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 slept | cc |
| 14 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | parataxis |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 pillow | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 pillow | nmod:poss |
| 17 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slept | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 before | case |
| 19 | before | before | ADV | _ | 14 slept | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 broke | punct |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 24 broke | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 morning | det |
| 23 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 broke | nsubj |
| 24 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 slept | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the princess | the door | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent door=Theme frog=Destination | ||||
| 2 | come in | past | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | sleep | past | upon princess's pillow | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | break | past | the morning | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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