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title: And as soon as the Frog sat on the chair he jumped on to the table a… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: And as soon as the Frog sat on the chair he jumped on to the table and said, "Now push thy plate near me, that we may eat together." Who acts: Frog, King, we. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Frog Prince, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 39

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And as soon as the Frog sat on the chair he jumped on to the table and said, "Now push thy plate near me, that we may eat together."

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**Who acts:** Frog, King, we · **What happens:** sit, jump on, say, push, eat · **To what, where:** chair, table, plate · **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 (Frog, King, we), 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:pg11027:21:39
# text = And as soon as the Frog sat on the chair he jumped on to the table and said, "Now push thy plate near me, that we may eat together."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Frog	Frog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	push	push	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
23	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	near	near	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
32	together	together	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | the Frog |  |  | the chair |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location |
| 2 | **jump on** | past | King |  |  | the table |  | soon *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to table=Destination |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **push** *in a quote* | present |  | thy plate |  |  | now | near King | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent plate=Theme near i=Trajectory |
| 5 | **eat** *in a quote* | may | we |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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