Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 112
And the fisherman crept towards the sea, and cried out, as well as he could:
Who acts: fisherman · What happens: creep, cry out · To what, where: sea
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 (fisherman), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 crept | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fisherman | det |
| 3 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crept | nsubj |
| 4 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crept | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cried | cc |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crept | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 cried | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 as | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 4 crept | advmod |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 as | fixed |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 could | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 could | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 as | advcl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | the fisherman | the sea | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards sea=Destination | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | the fisherman not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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.
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