Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 55

And when he went in he saw his wife sitting on a throne of gold and diamonds, with a golden crown upon her head; and on each side of her stood six fair maidens, each a head taller than the other.

Who acts: fisherman, wife · What happens: go in, see, sit, stand · To what, where: wife, throne, six fair maidens, side

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 (fisherman, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 saw	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 went	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	advcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	4 went	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obj
10	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 wife	acl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 throne	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 throne	det
13	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sitting	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 gold	case
15	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 throne	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 diamonds	cc
17	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 gold	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 crown	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 crown	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 crown	det
21	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 crown	amod
22	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sitting	obl
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 head	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 crown	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 stood	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 stood	cc
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 side	case
29	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	30 side	det
30	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stood	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 her	case
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 side	nmod
33	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	conj
34	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 maidens	nummod
35	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 maidens	amod
36	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 stood	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 taller	punct
38	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	40 head	det
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 head	det
40	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 taller	obl:unmarked
41	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 maidens	conj
42	than	than	ADP	_	44 other	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 other	det
44	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 taller	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in	past	fisherman				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	fisherman	fisherman's wife			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus
3	sit	gerund	fisherman's wife not said here		a throne of gold and diamonds	with a golden crown upon wife's head	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location
4	stand	past	fisherman not said here	six fair maidens	each side of wife		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme on side=Destination

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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