Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 19

‘Come in, come in!’ said she; ‘is not this much better than the filthy pigsty we had?’

Who acts: wife, this, we · What happens: come in, say, not be, have · To what, where: filthy pigsty · 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, this, we), 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 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Come	conj
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 better	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 better	punct
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 better	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 better	advmod
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 better	nsubj
16	much	much	ADV	_	17 better	advmod
17	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 said	parataxis
18	than	than	ADP	_	21 pigsty	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pigsty	det
20	filthy	filthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pigsty	amod
21	pigsty	pigsty	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 better	obl
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 pigsty	acl:relcl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 better	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come in	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come in	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not is	present	this		than the filthy pigsty; good property	tree rules
5	have	past	we	the filthy pigsty not said here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pigsty=Patient

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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