Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 43
‘But, wife,’ said the fisherman, ‘how can you be king--the fish cannot make you a king?’
Who acts: wife, you, fish · What happens: say, be, not make · To what, where: fisherman, king, you · 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, you, fish), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 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 fisherman | det |
| 9 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 king | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 king | punct |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 king | advmod |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 king | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 king | nsubj |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 king | cop |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fisherman | appos |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 make | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fish | det |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 make | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 make | advmod |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 king | parataxis |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 make | obj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 king | det |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | wife | the fisherman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fisherman=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | can | you | king | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not make | can | the fish | a king | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary king=Product |
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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