Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 5

‘Oh, ho!’ said the man, ‘you need not make so many words about the matter; I will have nothing to do with a fish that can talk: so swim away, sir, as soon as you please!’

Who acts: ho, you, I, fish · What happens: say, not make, have, do, talk, swim away · To what, where: man, many words, nothing · 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 (ho, you, I, 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	_	4 ho	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 ho	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	ho	ho	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 ho	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 ho	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	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 man	punct
11	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	15 make	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 make	nsubj
13	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 make	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 make	advmod
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 many	advmod
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 words	amod
18	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 make	obj
19	about	about	ADP	_	21 matter	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 matter	det
21	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 words	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 have	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 have	aux
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	parataxis
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 have	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 do	mark
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 nothing	acl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 fish	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 fish	det
31	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 do	obl
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 talk	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 talk	aux
34	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 fish	acl:relcl
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 swim	punct
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 swim	advmod
37	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 have	conj
38	away	away	ADV	_	37 swim	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 sir	punct
40	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 swim	vocative
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 soon	punct
42	as	as	ADV	_	43 soon	advmod
43	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 swim	advmod
44	as	as	ADP	_	45 you	case
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 soon	obl
46	please	please	INTJ	_	37 swim	discourse
47	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	ho	the man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic
2	not make	present	you	many words	about the matter	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Product
3	have	future	I	nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	do	to-infinitive	I not said here	nothing not said here	with a fish	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	talk	can	a fish			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	swim away	infinitive	I not said here		sir vocative; away, soon property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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