Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 40
‘Wife, wife,’ said the man, ‘why should we wish to be the king?
Who acts: Wife, we · What happens: say, wish, be · To what, where: king · 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, 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 | _ | 2 Wife | punct |
| 2 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Wife | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wife | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wife | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wish | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 wish | punct |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 wish | advmod |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 wish | aux |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 wish | nsubj |
| 15 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 man | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 king | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 king | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wish | xcomp |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Wife and wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wish | should | we | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | the king | tree rules |
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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