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title: "Oh, dear father, yesterday when I was playing by the fountain, my g… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: "Oh, dear father, yesterday when I was playing by the fountain, my golden ball fell into the water, and this Frog fetched it up again because I cried so much: but first, I must tell you, he pressed me so much, that I promised him he should be my companion. Who acts: I, dear father, Frog, King. A sen
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 30

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"Oh, dear father, yesterday when I was playing by the fountain, my golden ball fell into the water, and this Frog fetched it up again because I cried so much: but first, I must tell you, he pressed me so much, that I promised him he should be my companion.

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**Who acts:** I, dear father, Frog, King · **What happens:** play, fall, fetch up, cry, tell, press · **To what, where:** water, ball, King, me, companion · **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 (I, dear father, Frog, King), 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:pg11027:21:30
# text = "Oh, dear father, yesterday when I was playing by the fountain, my golden ball fell into the water, and this Frog fetched it up again because I cried so much: but first, I must tell you, he pressed me so much, that I promised him he should be my companion.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	Frog	Frog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	fetched	fetch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
30	again	again	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
31	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	much	much	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
38	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
43	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
47	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	so	so	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	much	much	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
52	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
54	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	iobj	_	_
55	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
56	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
57	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	cop	_	_
58	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** *in a quote* | past · progressive | I |  |  |  |  | by the fountain | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fall** *in a quote* | past | dear father |  |  |  |  | into the water *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result |
| 3 | **fetch up** *in a quote* | past | this Frog | ball |  |  | again |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | must | I |  | King |  |  | first *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 6 | **press** *in a quote* | past | King | me |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent i=Result |
| 7 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | past | I |  | King |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 8 | **is a** *in a quote* | should | King | my companion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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