Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 39

He told her that he had been enchanted by a spiteful fairy, who had changed him into a frog; and that he had been fated so to abide till some princess should take him out of the spring, and let him eat from her plate, and sleep upon her bed for three nights.

Who acts: voice, spiteful fairy · What happens: tell, enchant, change, fate, abide, take · To what, where: princess, voice, plate · 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 (voice, spiteful fairy), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 enchanted	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 enchanted	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 enchanted	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 enchanted	aux:pass
8	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 told	ccomp
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 fairy	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fairy	det
11	spiteful	spiteful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fairy	amod
12	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 enchanted	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 changed	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 changed	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 changed	aux
16	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 fairy	acl:relcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 changed	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 frog	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 frog	det
20	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 changed	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 fated	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fated	cc
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 fated	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fated	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fated	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 fated	aux:pass
27	fated	fate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 take	advcl
28	so	so	ADV	_	30 abide	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 abide	mark
30	abide	abide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 fated	advcl
31	till	till	ADP	_	33 princess	case
32	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 princess	det
33	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 abide	obl
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 take	aux
35	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 take	obj
37	out	out	ADP	_	40 spring	case
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 spring	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 spring	det
40	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 take	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 let	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 let	cc
43	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	35 take	conj
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 let	obj
45	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 let	xcomp
46	from	from	ADP	_	48 plate	case
47	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 plate	nmod:poss
48	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 eat	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 sleep	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 sleep	cc
51	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 take	obl
52	upon	upon	ADP	_	54 bed	case
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 bed	nmod:poss
54	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 sleep	nmod
55	for	for	ADP	_	57 nights	case
56	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	57 nights	nummod
57	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 take	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	voice		princess				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	enchant	past · perfect · passive	a spiteful fairy	voice					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
3	change	past · perfect	a spiteful fairy	voice				into a frog result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into frog=Result
4	fate	past · perfect · passive		voice					tree rules
5	abide	to-infinitive					till some princess		tree rules
6	take	should			voice		night; spring	sleep upon princess's bed obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
7	let	infinitive		voice					tree rules
8	eat	infinitive	voice not said here			princess's plate			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from plate=Source

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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