Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 100
‘Well, wife,’ replied he, ‘it is a grand thing to be pope; and now you must be easy, for you can be nothing greater.’
Who acts: wife, storm, you · What happens: reply, be · To what, where: grand thing, pope · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, storm, you), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thing | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 thing | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thing | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 thing | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 thing | det |
| 14 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thing | amod |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 pope | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 pope | cop |
| 18 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thing | advcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 easy | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 easy | cc |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 easy | advmod |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 easy | nsubj |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 easy | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 easy | cop |
| 25 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 nothing | punct |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 nothing | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 nothing | nsubj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 nothing | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 nothing | cop |
| 31 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 25 easy | conj |
| 32 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 nothing | amod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | wife | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | storm | a grand thing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | storm not said here | pope | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | must | you | now | easy property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is | can | you | for nothing | tree rules |
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.
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