Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 21
‘Ah!’ said the fisherman, ‘how happily we shall live now!’
Who acts: we · What happens: say, live · To what, where: fisherman · 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 (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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | 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 | _ | 14 live | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 live | punct |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 happily | advmod |
| 11 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 14 live | advmod |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 live | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 live | aux |
| 14 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 live | advmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 live | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the fisherman | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | live | shall | we | now | happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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