Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 4
I am not a real fish; I am an enchanted prince: put me in the water again, and let me go!’
Who acts: I, me · What happens: not be, enchant, be, put, let, go · To what, where: real fish, enchanted prince, me, water
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 (I, me), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 fish | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fish | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 fish | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fish | det |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fish | amod |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 prince | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 prince | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 prince | cop |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 prince | det |
| 11 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 prince | amod |
| 12 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fish | parataxis |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 prince | parataxis |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 put | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 put | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 let | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 let | cc |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 put | conj |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 let | obj |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 let | xcomp |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 prince | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 fish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | I | a real fish | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | I | a enchanted prince | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | me | the water | again | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in water=Destination | |||
| 5 | let | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | go | infinitive | me not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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