Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 51
‘Well, what would she have now?’ said the fish.
Who acts: wife, fish · What happens: have, say · 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, 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 have | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 have | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 have | obj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | aux |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 have | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fish | det |
| 13 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | would | wife | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the fish | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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