Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 2

The fisherman used to go out all day long a-fishing; and one day, as he sat on the shore with his rod, looking at the sparkling waves and watching his line, all on a sudden his float was dragged away deep into the water: and in drawing it up he pulled out a great fish.

Who acts: fisherman · What happens: use, go out, sit, look, watch, drag away · To what, where: fishing, shore, line, all, water, great fish

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 (fisherman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fisherman	det
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 used	nsubj
3	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 used	xcomp
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl:unmarked
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 fishing	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fishing	det
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 a	punct
12	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 day	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 day	cc
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 day	nummod
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 used	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sat	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 sat	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sat	nsubj
20	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 used	parataxis
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 shore	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 shore	det
23	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sat	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 rod	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 rod	nmod:poss
26	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sat	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 looking	punct
28	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 sat	advcl
29	at	at	ADP	_	32 waves	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 waves	det
31	sparkling	sparkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 waves	compound
32	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 looking	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 watching	cc
34	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 looking	conj
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 line	nmod:poss
36	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 watching	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 dragged	punct
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 dragged	nsubj:pass
39	on	on	ADP	_	43 float	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 float	det
41	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 float	amod
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 float	nmod:poss
43	float	float	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 all	nmod
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 dragged	aux:pass
45	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 used	conj
46	away	away	ADV	_	45 dragged	advmod
47	deep	deep	ADV	_	50 water	advmod
48	into	into	ADP	_	50 water	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 water	det
50	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 dragged	obl
51	:	:	PUNCT	_	58 pulled	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 pulled	cc
53	in	in	SCONJ	_	54 drawing	mark
54	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	58 pulled	advcl
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 drawing	obj
56	up	up	ADP	_	54 drawing	compound:prt
57	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 pulled	nsubj
58	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 used	parataxis
59	out	out	ADP	_	58 pulled	compound:prt
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 fish	det
61	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 fish	amod
62	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 pulled	obj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	the fisherman			day		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	go out	to-infinitive	the fisherman not said here	a fishing		day	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sit	past	fisherman		the shore		with fisherman's rod	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shore=Location
4	look	gerund	fisherman not said here				at the sparkling waves	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wave=Theme
5	watch	gerund	fisherman not said here	fisherman's line				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme
6	drag away	past · passive		all	the water		away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	draw up	gerund	fisherman not said here	line				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
8	pull out	past	fisherman	a great fish				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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