Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 33
So away went the fisherman, and found his wife standing before the gate of a great castle.
Who acts: wife · What happens: go, find, stand · To what, where: fisherman, wife, gate
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fisherman | det |
| 5 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 found | cc |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 11 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 wife | acl |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 gate | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gate | det |
| 14 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 standing | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 castle | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 castle | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 castle | amod |
| 18 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gate | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the fisherman | away property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fisherman=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | fisherman's wife | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | fisherman's wife not said here | the gate of a great castle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before gate=Location |
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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