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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 51

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They had not proceeded far when the Prince heard a crack as if something had broken behind the carriage; so he put his head out of the window and asked trusty Henry what was broken, and faithful Henry answered, "It was not the carriage, my master, but an iron band which I bound around my heart when it was in such grief because you were changed into a frog."

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**Who acts:** Prince, faithful Henry, head · **What happens:** not proceed, hear, break, put, ask, answer · **To what, where:** bride, crack, something, carriage, head, window · **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 (Prince, faithful Henry, head), 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:pg11027:21:51
# text = They had not proceeded far when the Prince heard a crack as if something had broken behind the carriage; so he put his head out of the window and asked trusty Henry what was broken, and faithful Henry answered, "It was not the carriage, my master, but an iron band which I bound around my heart when it was in such grief because you were changed into a frog."
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	crack	crack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	_
17	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
32	trusty	trusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
43	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	48	advmod	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	72	punct	_	_
53	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	72	cc	_	_
54	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	nsubj:pass	_	_
57	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	59	obj	_	_
58	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
59	bound	bound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	56	acl:relcl	_	_
60	around	around	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	_
63	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	68	advmod	_	_
64	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	68	nsubj	_	_
65	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	68	cop	_	_
66	in	in	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
67	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	68	amod	_	_
68	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	_
69	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	72	mark	_	_
70	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	72	nsubj	_	_
71	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	72	aux:pass	_	_
72	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
73	into	into	ADP	IN	_	75	case	_	_
74	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	75	det	_	_
75	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **proceed** | past · perfect · passive |  | bride |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | past | the Prince | a crack |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **break** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | something |  | the carriage |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **put** | past | Prince | Prince's head |  | the window |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme out window=Destination |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **break** | past · passive |  | trusty Henry |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | faithful Henry |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | past | head | the carriage and my master |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **bound** *in a quote* | present | faithful Henry *= henry* | a iron band |  | my heart |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **is** *in a quote* | past | head |  |  | such grief |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **change** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | a iron band |  |  |  | into a frog *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into frog=Result |

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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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