Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 13
My wife Ilsabill Will have her own will, And hath sent me to beg a boon of thee!’
Who acts: wife · What happens: have, send, beg · To what, where: me, boon
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), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | nsubj |
| 3 | Ilsabill | Ilsabill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wife | appos |
| 4 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 will | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 will | amod |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hath | punct |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hath | cc |
| 11 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | parataxis |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hath | ccomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 sent | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 beg | mark |
| 15 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sent | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 boon | det |
| 17 | boon | boon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 beg | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 thee | case |
| 19 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 boon | nmod |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | My wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | send | past | me | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | a boon of thee | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent boon=Recipient |
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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