Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 14

Then the fish came swimming to him, and said, ‘Well, what is her will?

Who acts: fish · What happens: come, swim, say · To what, where: fish · 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fish	det
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 came	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 swimming	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 what	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 what	punct
13	Well	well	INTJ	_	15 what	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Well	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 said	parataxis
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 will	cop
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 will	nmod:poss
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 what	acl:relcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	roles by
1	come	past	the fish		then	tree rules
2	swim	gerund	the fish not said here	fish		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to he=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	the fish not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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