Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 7

When the fisherman went home to his wife in the pigsty, he told her how he had caught a great fish, and how it had told him it was an enchanted prince, and how, on hearing it speak, he had let it go again.

Who acts: fisherman, pigsty, fish · What happens: go, tell, catch, enchant, be, hear · To what, where: wife, fisherman, pigsty, fish, enchanted prince · 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 (fisherman, pigsty, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fisherman	det
3	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 told	advcl
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 wife	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 pigsty	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pigsty	det
11	pigsty	pigsty	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wife	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	nsubj
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	iobj
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 caught	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 caught	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 caught	aux
19	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 told	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 fish	det
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fish	amod
22	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 caught	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 told	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 told	cc
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 told	advmod
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 told	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 told	aux
28	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 told	parataxis
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 told	iobj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 prince	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 prince	cop
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 prince	det
33	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 prince	amod
34	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 told	ccomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 hearing	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 hearing	cc
37	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	40 hearing	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 hearing	punct
39	on	on	SCONJ	_	40 hearing	mark
40	hearing	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 told	ccomp
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 speak	nsubj
42	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 hearing	xcomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 had	nsubj
45	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 told	ccomp
46	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 had	xcomp
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 let	obj
48	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 let	xcomp
49	again	again	ADV	_	48 go	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the fisherman				to fisherman's wife in the pigsty; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wife=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	fisherman		wife			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	catch	past · perfect · passive		fisherman				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary fish=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		pigsty	fish			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic
5	enchant	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	past	pigsty	a enchanted prince				tree rules
7	hear	gerund						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	speak speech: other	infinitive	pigsty					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	have	past	fish					tree rules
10	let	infinitive	fish not said here	pigsty				tree rules
11	go	infinitive	pigsty not said here			again		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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