Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 25

‘Nonsense!’ said the wife; ‘he will do it very willingly, I know; go along and try!’

Who acts: fisherman, I · What happens: say, do, know, go along, try · To what, where: wife, Nonsense · 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 (fisherman, I), 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 Nonsense	punct
2	Nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Nonsense	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Nonsense	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 wife	det
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	obj
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 willingly	advmod
15	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	12 do	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 know	nsubj
18	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 do	parataxis
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
20	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 know	conj
21	along	along	ADV	_	20 go	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 try	cc
23	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 go	conj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the wife		tree rules
2	do	future	fisherman	Nonsense	willingly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	know	present	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	go along	infinitive	I not said here		along property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	try	infinitive	I not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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