Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 24

‘Wife,’ said the fisherman, ‘I don’t like to go to him again, for perhaps he will be angry; we ought to be easy with this pretty cottage to live in.’

Who acts: Wife, I, fisherman · What happens: say, not like, go, be, live in · 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 (Wife, I, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Wife	punct
2	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wife	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Wife	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 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	_	13 like	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 like	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 like	aux
12	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 like	advmod
13	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 like	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 go	obl
18	again	again	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 angry	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 angry	mark
21	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	25 angry	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 angry	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 angry	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 angry	cop
25	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 go	advcl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 easy	punct
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 ought	nsubj
28	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 easy	aux
29	to	to	PART	_	31 easy	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 easy	cop
31	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	parataxis
32	with	with	ADP	_	35 cottage	case
33	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 cottage	det
34	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 cottage	amod
35	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 easy	obl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 live	mark
37	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 cottage	acl
38	in	in	ADP	_	37 live	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 easy	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 easy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Wife	the fisherman				tree rules
2	not like	present · do-support	I					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		fisherman	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
4	is	future	fisherman				angry, perhaps property	tree rules
5	is	ought					with this pretty cottage; easy property	tree rules
6	live in	to-infinitive						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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