Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 40
‘You,’ said the prince, ‘have broken his cruel charm, and now I have nothing to wish for but that you should go with me into my father’s kingdom, where I will marry you, and love you as long as you live.’
Who acts: You, I · What happens: say, break, have, wish, go, marry · To what, where: prince, cruel charm, nothing, kingdom, you · 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 (You, I), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 You | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 You | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 broken | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 broken | punct |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 broken | aux |
| 11 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 charm | nmod:poss |
| 13 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 charm | amod |
| 14 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 broken | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 have | cc |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 have | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 20 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 have | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 wish | mark |
| 22 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 nothing | acl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 wish | obl |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 go | cc |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 go | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 go | nsubj |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 go | aux |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 have | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 me | case |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 go | obl |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 kingdom | case |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 father | nmod:poss |
| 33 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 33 father | case |
| 35 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 go | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 marry | punct |
| 37 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 40 marry | advmod |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 marry | nsubj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 marry | aux |
| 40 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 go | conj |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 marry | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 love | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 love | cc |
| 44 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | conj |
| 45 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 love | obj |
| 46 | as | as | ADV | _ | 47 long | advmod |
| 47 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 44 love | advmod |
| 48 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 50 live | mark |
| 49 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 50 live | nsubj |
| 50 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 long | advcl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 52 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | You | the prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break | present · perfect | voice's cruel charm | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer charm=Patient | |||||
| 3 | have | present | I | nothing | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | |||
| 4 | wish | to-infinitive | I not said here | nothing not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 5 | go | should | you | my father's kingdom | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kingdom=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | marry | future | I | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 7 | love | present | I not said here | you | long property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 8 | live | present | you | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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