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Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 65

‘Ah, wife!’ replied the fisherman, ‘the fish cannot make an emperor, I am sure, and I should not like to ask him for such a thing.’

Who acts: wife, fish, I · What happens: reply, not make, be, not like, ask · To what, where: fisherman, emperor, fish

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, I), 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

punctdiscoursepunctnsubjpunctpunctdetobjpunctpunctdetnsubjauxadvmodparataxisdetobjpunctnsubjcopconjpunctccnsubjauxadvmodccompmarkxcompobjcasedet:predetdetoblpunctpunctroot‘PUNCTAhINTJ,PUNCTwifeNOUN!PUNCT’PUNCTrepliedVERBtheDETfishermanNOUN,PUNCT‘PUNCTtheDETfishNOUNcanAUXnotPARTmakeVERBanDETemperorNOUN,PUNCTIPRONamAUXsureADJ,PUNCTandCCONJIPRONshouldAUXnotPARTlikeVERBtoPARTaskVERBhimPRONforADPsuchDETaDETthingNOUN.PUNCT’PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1‘'PUNCT_7 repliedpunct
2AhahINTJ_7 replieddiscourse
3,,PUNCT_4 wifepunct
4wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing7 repliednsubj
5!!PUNCT_4 wifepunct
6’'PUNCT_4 wifepunct
7repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 fishermandet
9fishermanfishermanNOUNNumber=Sing7 repliedobj
10,,PUNCT_16 makepunct
11‘'PUNCT_16 makepunct
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 fishdet
13fishfishNOUNNumber=Sing16 makensubj
14cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin16 makeaux
15notnotPARTPolarity=Neg16 makeadvmod
16makemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf7 repliedparataxis
17anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 emperordet
18emperoremperorNOUNNumber=Sing16 makeobj
19,,PUNCT_22 surepunct
20IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs22 surensubj
21ambeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin22 surecop
22suresureADJDegree=Pos16 makeconj
23,,PUNCT_28 likepunct
24andandCCONJ_28 likecc
25IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs28 likensubj
26shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin28 likeaux
27notnotPARTPolarity=Neg28 likeadvmod
28likelikeVERBVerbForm=Inf22 sureccomp
29totoPART_30 askmark
30askaskVERBVerbForm=Inf28 likexcomp
31himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 askobj
32forforADP_35 thingcase
33suchsuchDETPronType=Ind35 thingdet:predet
34aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art35 thingdet
35thingthingNOUNNumber=Sing30 askobl
36..PUNCT_7 repliedpunct
37’'PUNCT_7 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpastwifethe fishermanvn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fisherman=Topic
2not makecanthe fisha emperorvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=Product
3ispresentIsure propertytree rules
4not likeshouldIvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5ask speech: ask not said to happento-infinitiveI not said herefishfor such thingvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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