Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 16

‘Ah!’ said the fisherman, ‘she says that when I had caught you, I ought to have asked you for something before I let you go; she does not like living any longer in the pigsty, and wants a snug little cottage.’

Who acts: wife, I, you · What happens: say, catch, ask, let, go, not like · To what, where: fisherman, I, you, snug little cottage · 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, I, 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fisherman	det
7	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 says	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 caught	mark
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 caught	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 caught	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 caught	aux
16	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 asked	advcl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 caught	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 caught	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 asked	nsubj
20	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 asked	aux
21	to	to	PART	_	23 asked	mark
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 asked	aux
23	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 says	ccomp
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 asked	iobj
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 something	case
26	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 asked	obl
27	before	before	SCONJ	_	29 let	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 let	nsubj
29	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 asked	advcl
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 let	obj
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 let	xcomp
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 like	punct
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 like	nsubj
34	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 like	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 like	advmod
36	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 says	ccomp
37	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 like	xcomp
38	any	any	ADV	_	39 longer	advmod
39	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 living	advmod
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 pigsty	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 pigsty	det
42	pigsty	pigsty	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 longer	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 wants	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 wants	cc
45	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 says	ccomp
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 cottage	det
47	snug	snug	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 cottage	amod
48	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 cottage	amod
49	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 wants	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	45 wants	punct
51	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the fisherman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fisherman=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	wife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	catch	past · perfect · passive		I			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary you=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	ought · perfect	I		you	for something	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	let	present	I	you			tree rules
6	go	infinitive	you not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not like	present · do-support	wife				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	live not said to happen	gerund	wife not said here			long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	want	present		a snug little cottage			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cottage=Theme

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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