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title: This speech put the King's daughter into a terrible passion, and cat… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: This speech put the King's daughter into a terrible passion, and catching the Frog up, she threw him with all her strength against the wall, saying "Now will you be quiet, you ugly Frog!" Who acts: speech, frog, you. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Frog Prince, with its dep
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 46

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This speech put the King's daughter into a terrible passion, and catching the Frog up, she threw him with all her strength against the wall, saying "Now will you be quiet, you ugly Frog!"

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**Who acts:** speech, frog, you · **What happens:** put, catch up, throw, say, be · **To what, where:** daughter, terrible passion, Frog, King · **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 (speech, frog, you), 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:pg11027:21:46
# text = This speech put the King's daughter into a terrible passion, and catching the Frog up, she threw him with all her strength against the wall, saying "Now will you be quiet, you ugly Frog!"
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	catching	catch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Frog	Frog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	against	against	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	csubj	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
36	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	Frog	Frog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | this speech |  | the King's daughter | a terrible passion |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent daughter=Goal |
| 2 | **catch up** | gerund | this speech *not said here* | the Frog |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Theme |
| 3 | **throw** | past | frog | King |  |  |  | with frog's strength against the wall | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  | ugly Frog *obl*; quiet *property* | 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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