--- title: After a time she threw it up so high that she missed catching it as… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: After a time she threw it up so high that she missed catching it as it fell; and the ball bounded away, and rolled along upon the ground, till at last it fell down into the spring. Who acts: princess, ball. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Frog-prince, with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/13/3/) [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/) / 3 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 3 After a time she threw it up so high that she missed catching it as it fell; and the ball bounded away, and rolled along upon the ground, till at last it fell down into the spring. **Who acts:** princess, ball · **What happens:** throw up, miss, catch, fall, bound away, roll · **To what, where:** ball, ground, last 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, 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:pg2591:13:3 # text = After a time she threw it up so high that she missed catching it as it fell; and the ball bounded away, and rolled along upon the ground, till at last it fell down into the spring. 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 advcl _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 missed miss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 13 catching catch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 xcomp _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 22 bounded bound VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 23 away away ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 rolled roll VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 27 along along ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 upon upon ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 till till SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 obl _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 37 down down ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 into into ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **throw up** | past | princess | ball | | | time | the ball *obl* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **miss** | past | princess | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **catch** | gerund | princess *not said here* | ball | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **fall** | past | ball | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **bound away** | participle | | the ball *not said here* | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **roll** | participle | | | | the ground | | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon ground=Trajectory | | 7 | **fall down** | past | ball | | | last | spring | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location | 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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/13/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/13/4/) - ↑ back to [The Frog-prince](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/13/)