Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 118
‘Go home,’ said the fish, ‘to your pigsty again.’
Who acts: fish · What happens: go, say · 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 (fish), 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 | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 Go | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fish | det |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pigsty | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 pigsty | punct |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 pigsty | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 pigsty | nmod:poss |
| 13 | pigsty | pigsty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 pigsty | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 pigsty | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 pigsty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | infinitive | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the fish | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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