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title: The next day, when the King's daughter was sitting at table with her… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The next day, when the King's daughter was sitting at table with her father and all his courtiers, and was eating from her own little golden plate, something was heard coming up the marble stairs, splish-splash, splish-splash; and when it arrived at the top, it knocked at the door, and a voice said-
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 24

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The next day, when the King's daughter was sitting at table with her father and all his courtiers, and was eating from her own little golden plate, something was heard coming up the marble stairs, splish-splash, splish-splash; and when it arrived at the top, it knocked at the door, and a voice said--

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**Who acts:** daughter, something, plate, voice · **What happens:** sit, eat, hear, come up, arrive, knock · **To what, where:** table, own little golden plate, something, marble stairs, top · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» 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 (daughter, something, plate, voice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:21:24
# text = The next day, when the King's daughter was sitting at table with her father and all his courtiers, and was eating from her own little golden plate, something was heard coming up the marble stairs, splish-splash, splish-splash; and when it arrived at the top, it knocked at the door, and a voice said--
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
27	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	parataxis	_	_
35	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	xcomp	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	splish	splish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	splash	splash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	splish	splish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	splash	splash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
50	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	52	advmod	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	advcl	_	_
53	at	at	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
57	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
59	at	at	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
64	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	nsubj	_	_
66	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | the King's daughter |  |  | table |  | with frog's father and King's courtiers | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location |
| 2 | **eat** | past · progressive | the King's daughter *not said here* |  |  | frog's own little golden plate |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from plate=Source |
| 3 | **hear** | past · passive |  | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come up** | gerund | something *not said here* | the marble stairs |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **arrive** | past | plate |  |  | the top |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **knock** | past | plate |  |  |  | day | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a voice |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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