Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 22
‘We will try to do so, at least,’ said his wife.
Who acts: We · What happens: try, do, say · To what, where: least, wife · 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 | _ | 4 try | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 try | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 try | aux |
| 4 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 try | xcomp |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 do | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 least | punct |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 least | case |
| 10 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 do | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | future | We | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | We not said here | least | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | fisherman's wife | 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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