--- title: She did so, and the frog hopped into the room, and then straight on-… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: She did so, and the frog hopped into the room, and then straight on--tap, tap--plash, plash--from the bottom of the room to the top, till he came up close to the table where the princess sat. ‘Pray lift me upon chair,’ said he to the princess, ‘and let me sit next to you.’ Who acts: princess, frog, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/13/27/) [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/) / 27 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 27 She did so, and the frog hopped into the room, and then straight on--tap, tap--plash, plash--from the bottom of the room to the top, till he came up close to the table where the princess sat. ‘Pray lift me upon chair,’ said he to the princess, ‘and let me sit next to you.’ **Who acts:** princess, frog, father, princess sat., me · **What happens:** do, hop, come up, lift, say, let · **To what, where:** room, table, me, chair, princess, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, frog, father, princess sat.), 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:pg2591:13:27 # text = She did so, and the frog hopped into the room, and then straight on--tap, tap--plash, plash--from the bottom of the room to the top, till he came up close to the table where the princess sat. ‘Pray lift me upon chair,’ said he to the princess, ‘and let me sit next to you.’ 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 hopped hop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 15 straight straight ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 on on ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 -- -- PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 tap tap NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 tap tap NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 -- -- PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 plash plash NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 plash plash NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 -- -- PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 till till SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 39 up up ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 43 advmod _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 44 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 50 advmod _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 sat. Saturday PROPN NNP Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 48 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 Pray Pray PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 conj _ _ 50 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 acl:relcl _ _ 51 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 50 obj _ _ 52 upon upon ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 56 punct _ _ 56 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 parataxis _ _ 57 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 58 to to ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 62 ‘ ‘ NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 63 and and CCONJ CC _ 64 cc _ _ 64 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 56 conj _ _ 65 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 64 obj _ _ 66 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 64 xcomp _ _ 67 next next ADV RB _ 66 advmod _ _ 68 to to ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 69 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 66 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 70 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 71 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | princess | | | | | to the top | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hop** | past | the frog | | | the room | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into room=Destination | | 3 | **come up** | past | father | | | the table | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to table=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **lift** | infinitive | the princess sat. and Pray | me | | chair | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme upon chair=Destination | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | father | | the princess and ‘ | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to princess=Recipient | | 6 | **let** | infinitive | father *not said here* | me | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **sit** | infinitive | me *not said here* | | you | | | next *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: 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:** «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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/13/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/13/28/) - ↑ back to [The Frog-prince](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/13/)