Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 67

So the fisherman was forced to go; and he muttered as he went along, ‘This will come to no good, it is too much to ask; the fish will be tired at last, and then we shall be sorry for what we have done.’

Who acts: fisherman, This, slave, fish, we · What happens: force, go, mutter, go along, come, be · To what, where: fisherman, good, last

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, This, slave, 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 forced	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fisherman	det
3	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forced	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 forced	aux:pass
5	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 forced	xcomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 muttered	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 muttered	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 muttered	nsubj
11	muttered	mutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 forced	conj
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 went	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 muttered	advcl
15	along	along	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
18	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 come	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 went	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 good	case
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 good	det
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 come	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 much	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 much	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 much	cop
27	too	too	ADV	_	28 much	advmod
28	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 come	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 ask	mark
30	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 much	acl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 tired	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fish	det
33	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tired	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 tired	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 tired	cop
36	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 forced	parataxis
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 last	case
38	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 tired	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 sorry	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 sorry	cc
41	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	45 sorry	advmod
42	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 sorry	nsubj
43	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 sorry	aux
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 sorry	cop
45	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 tired	conj
46	for	for	ADP	_	47 what	case
47	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 sorry	obl
48	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 done	nsubj
49	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 done	aux
50	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 what	acl:relcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 forced	punct
52	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 forced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	force	past · passive		the fisherman				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go	to-infinitive	the fisherman not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mutter speech: assert	past	fisherman					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go along	past	fisherman				along property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	future	This		no good			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to good=Initial_Location
6	is	present	slave				much property	tree rules
7	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is	future	the fish		last		tired property	tree rules
9	is	shall	we			then	sorry property	tree rules
10	do	present · perfect	we					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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