Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 4
The princess looked into the spring after her ball, but it was very deep, so deep that she could not see the bottom of it.
Who acts: princess, ball · What happens: look, be, not see · To what, where: bottom
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, ball), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 spring | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 spring | det |
| 6 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 ball | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ball | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 deep | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 deep | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 deep | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 deep | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 deep | advmod |
| 15 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 deep | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 deep | advmod |
| 18 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 deep | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 see | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 see | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 see | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 see | advmod |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 deep | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bottom | det |
| 25 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 see | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 bottom | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the princess | after princess's ball; spring | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | ball | deep property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | ball not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not see | could | princess | the bottom of ball | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bottom=Stimulus |
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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