Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 18
So the man went home, and saw his wife standing at the door of a nice trim little cottage.
Who acts: man, wife · What happens: go, see, stand · To what, where: wife, door
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 (man, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 wife | acl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 door | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 standing | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 cottage | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cottage | det |
| 17 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cottage | amod |
| 18 | trim | trim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cottage | amod |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cottage | amod |
| 20 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 door | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the man | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the man not said here | man's wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | man's wife not said here | the door of a nice trim little cottage | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location |
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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