Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 6
Whilst she was speaking, a frog put its head out of the water, and said, ‘Princess, why do you weep so bitterly?’
Who acts: princess, frog, you · What happens: speak, put, say, weep · To what, where: head, water · 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 (princess, frog, you), 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 | Whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 4 speaking | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 speaking | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 speaking | aux |
| 4 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 put | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 speaking | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 frog | det |
| 7 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | nsubj |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 put | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Princess | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 Princess | punct |
| 20 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 weep | punct |
| 22 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 weep | advmod |
| 23 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 weep | aux |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 weep | nsubj |
| 25 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 bitterly | advmod |
| 27 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 25 weep | advmod |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · progressive | princess | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | a frog | frog's head | the water | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme out water=Destination | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | weep | present · do-support | you | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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