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title: She looked around to the spot whence the voice came, and saw a frog… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: She looked around to the spot whence the voice came, and saw a frog stretching his thick, ugly head out of the water. " Who acts: She, voice, frog. 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 7

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She looked around to the spot whence the voice came, and saw a frog stretching his thick, ugly head out of the water. "

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**Who acts:** She, voice, frog · **What happens:** look around, come, see, stretch · **To what, where:** frog, thick ugly head, water

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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 (She, voice, frog), 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:pg11027:21:7
# text = She looked around to the spot whence the voice came, and saw a frog stretching his thick, ugly head out of the water. "
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	around	around	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
18	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look around** | past | She |  |  |  |  | to the spot; around *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to spot=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the voice |  |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | She *not said here* | a frog |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer frog=Stimulus |
| 4 | **stretch** | gerund | a frog *not said here* | voice's thick ugly head |  | the water |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient |

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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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