Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 58

And when he had looked at her for a long time, he said, ‘Ah, wife! what a fine thing it is to be king!

Who acts: king, thing · What happens: look, say, be · To what, where: king · 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 (king, thing), 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	_	5 looked	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 looked	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looked	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looked	aux
5	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looked	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 time	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looked	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Ah	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 Ah	punct
17	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	21 what	discourse
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wife	punct
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Ah	vocative
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 Ah	punct
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 said	obj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 thing	det
23	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 thing	amod
24	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 what	nsubj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 king	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 king	cop
27	to	to	PART	_	29 king	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 king	cop
29	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thing	acl:relcl
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · perfect	king		time	at wife	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	king				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	is a	present	thing	king			tree rules

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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