--- title: Now she had a golden ball in her hand, which was her favourite playt… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Now she had a golden ball in her hand, which was her favourite plaything; and she was always tossing it up into the air, and catching it again as it fell. Who acts: princess, hand, ball. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Frog-prince, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/13/2/) [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/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [The Frog-prince](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/13/) / 2 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 2 Now she had a golden ball in her hand, which was her favourite plaything; and she was always tossing it up into the air, and catching it again as it fell. **Who acts:** princess, hand, ball · **What happens:** have, be, toss up, catch, fall · **To what, where:** golden ball, hand, favourite plaything, ball, air 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 (princess, hand, ball), 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:pg2591:13:2 # text = Now she had a golden ball in her hand, which was her favourite plaything; and she was always tossing it up into the air, and catching it again as it fell. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 favourite favourite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 plaything plaything NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 21 advmod _ _ 21 tossing toss VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 catching catch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 again again ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 32 as as SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | princess | a golden ball | | princess's hand and princess's favourite plaything | now | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | past | princess's hand and princess's favourite plaything | princess's favourite plaything | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **toss up** | past · progressive | princess | ball | | the air | | always *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Patient into air=Recipient | | 4 | **catch** | gerund | princess *not said here* | ball | | | again | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **fall** | past | ball | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/13/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/13/3/) - ↑ back to [The Frog-prince](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/13/)