--- title: But as he fell he was changed from a Frog into a handsome Prince wit… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: But as he fell he was changed from a Frog into a handsome Prince with beautiful eyes, who after a little while became her dear companion and betrothed. Who acts: King, beautiful eyes. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Frog Prince, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/21/47/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimm's Fairy Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/) / [The Frog Prince](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/21/) / 47 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 47 But as he fell he was changed from a Frog into a handsome Prince with beautiful eyes, who after a little while became her dear companion and betrothed. **Who acts:** King, beautiful eyes · **What happens:** fall, change, become, betroth · **To what, where:** King, dear companion 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 (King, beautiful eyes), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11027:21:47 # text = But as he fell he was changed from a Frog into a handsome Prince with beautiful eyes, who after a little while became her dear companion and betrothed. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 ccomp _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Frog Frog PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 20 after after SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 companion companion NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 xcomp _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 betrothed betroth VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | past | King | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **change** | past · passive | | King | | | | from a Frog; into a handsome Prince *result*; with beautiful eyes | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.material PP.result»: subject=Patient from frog=Initial\_State into prince=Result | | 3 | **become** | past | beautiful eyes | frog's dear companion | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **betroth** | participle | beautiful eyes *not said here* | | | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/21/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/21/48/) - ↑ back to [The Frog Prince](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/21/)