Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 36
‘Well,’ said the man, ‘now we will live cheerful and happy in this beautiful castle for the rest of our lives.’
Who acts: we · What happens: say, live · To what, where: man, beautiful castle · 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | 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 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 live | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 live | punct |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 live | advmod |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 live | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 live | aux |
| 13 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 14 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 live | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 happy | cc |
| 16 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cheerful | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 castle | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 castle | det |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 castle | amod |
| 20 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 live | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 rest | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rest | det |
| 23 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 live | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 lives | case |
| 25 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 lives | nmod:poss |
| 26 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 rest | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | |||||
| 2 | live | future | we | this beautiful castle | now | for the rest of our lives; cheerful property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=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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