Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 6
Then he put him back into the water, and the fish darted straight down to the bottom, and left a long streak of blood behind him on the wave.
Who acts: ho, fish · What happens: put back, dart, leave · To what, where: fish, water, bottom, long streak, wave
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, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 darted | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 darted | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fish | det |
| 12 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 darted | nsubj |
| 13 | darted | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 14 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 15 down | advmod |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 darted | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 bottom | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bottom | det |
| 18 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 darted | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 left | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 left | cc |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 streak | det |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 streak | amod |
| 24 | streak | streak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 left | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 blood | case |
| 26 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 streak | nmod |
| 27 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 left | obl |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 wave | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 wave | det |
| 31 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 left | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put back | past | ho | fish | the water | then | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal | ||
| 2 | dart | past | the fish | the bottom | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Destination | |||
| 3 | leave | past | ho not said here | a long streak of blood | the wave | behind fish | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent streak=Theme behind he=Location |
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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