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title: The frog called after her, ‘Stay, princess, and take me with you as… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The frog called after her, ‘Stay, princess, and take me with you as you said,’ But she did not stop to hear a word. Who acts: frog, you, princess. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Frog-prince, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 15

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The frog called after her, ‘Stay, princess, and take me with you as you said,’ But she did not stop to hear a word.

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**Who acts:** frog, you, princess · **What happens:** call, stay, take, say, ', not stop · **To what, where:** frog, princess, me, word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» 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, you, princess), 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:pg2591:13:15
# text = The frog called after her, ‘Stay, princess, and take me with you as you said,’ But she did not stop to hear a word.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
22	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle |  | the frog *not said here* |  |  | after princess |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stay** | infinitive | the frog | princess |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | the frog *not said here* |  | me |  |  | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **'** | infinitive | the frog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **stop** | past · do-support | princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **hear** | to-infinitive | princess *not said here* | a word |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |

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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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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