Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 17

‘Go home, then,’ said the fish; ‘she is in the cottage already!’

Who acts: fish, wife · What happens: go, say, be · To what, where: 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 (fish, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 Go	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 then	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Go	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fish	det
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 cottage	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 cottage	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cottage	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 cottage	cop
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 cottage	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cottage	det
17	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
18	already	already	ADV	_	17 cottage	advmod
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 cottage	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 cottage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	infinitive			then	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
3	is	present	wife	the cottage			tree rules

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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