Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 44

‘Husband,’ said she, ‘say no more about it, but go and try!

Who acts: Husband, wife · What happens: say, go, try · To what, where: more · 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 (Husband, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Husband	punct
2	Husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Husband	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Husband	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 say	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 she	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
10	no	no	ADV	_	11 more	advmod
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 say	obj
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 more	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 go	cc
16	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 try	cc
18	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 go	conj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Husband			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	wife	more	about land	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic
3	go	infinitive				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	try	infinitive				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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