Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 38
But when the princess awoke on the following morning she was astonished to see, instead of the frog, a handsome prince, gazing on her with the most beautiful eyes she had ever seen, and standing at the head of her bed.
Who acts: princess · What happens: awake, follow, be, see, gaze, stand · To what, where: beautiful eyes, head
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), 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 | _ | 5 awoke | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 awoke | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 awoke | nsubj |
| 5 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 morning | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 morning | det |
| 8 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 morning | amod |
| 9 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 awoke | obl |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 astonished | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 astonished | cop |
| 12 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 awoke | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 astonished | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 frog | punct |
| 16 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 19 frog | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 instead | fixed |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 frog | det |
| 19 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 prince | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 prince | det |
| 22 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 prince | amod |
| 23 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 frog | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gazing | punct |
| 25 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 awoke | advcl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 gazing | obl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 eyes | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 eyes | det |
| 30 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 31 beautiful | advmod |
| 31 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 eyes | amod |
| 32 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 gazing | obl |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 seen | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 seen | aux |
| 35 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 36 seen | advmod |
| 36 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 standing | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 standing | cc |
| 39 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 awoke | advcl |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 head | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 head | det |
| 42 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 standing | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 bed | case |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 bed | nmod:poss |
| 45 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 head | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the princess | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | princess | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | princess not said here | instead the frog and a handsome prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | gaze | gerund | the princess not said here | on princess; with the beautiful eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on she=Theme | ||||
| 6 | see | past · perfect | princess | the beautiful eyes not said here | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | stand | gerund | the princess not said here | the head of princess's bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at head=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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