Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 59
Now we shall never have anything more to wish for as long as we live.’
Who acts: we · What happens: not have, wish, live · To what, where: anything
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 (we), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 have | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 have | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 have | obj |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 anything | amod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 wish | mark |
| 9 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 more | acl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 long | case |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 long | advmod |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 wish | obl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 live | mark |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 live | nsubj |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 long | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | shall | we | anything | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | |||
| 2 | wish | to-infinitive | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for long=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | live | present | we | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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