Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 75

So he went home again; and as he came near he saw his wife Ilsabill sitting on a very lofty throne made of solid gold, with a great crown on her head full two yards high; and on each side of her stood her guards and attendants in a row, each one smaller than the other, from the tallest giant down to a little dwarf no bigger than my finger.

Who acts: fish, wife · What happens: go, come, see, sit, make, stand · To what, where: wife, lofty throne, guards, side

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 (fish, wife), 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	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	near	near	ADP	_	13 saw	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wife	nmod:poss
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obj
16	Ilsabill	Ilsabill	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 wife	appos
17	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 wife	acl
18	on	on	ADP	_	22 throne	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 throne	det
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 lofty	advmod
21	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 throne	amod
22	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sitting	obl
23	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 throne	acl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 gold	case
25	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 gold	amod
26	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 crown	punct
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 crown	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 crown	det
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 crown	amod
31	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	conj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 head	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 head	nmod:poss
34	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 crown	nmod
35	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 head	amod
36	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 yards	nummod
37	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 high	obl:unmarked
38	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 full	obl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 stood	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 stood	cc
41	on	on	ADP	_	43 side	case
42	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	43 side	det
43	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 stood	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 her	case
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 side	nmod
46	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
47	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 guards	nmod:poss
48	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 stood	obj
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 attendants	cc
50	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 guards	conj
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 row	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 row	det
53	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 stood	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 one	punct
55	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	56 one	det
56	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 row	appos
57	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	56 one	amod
58	than	than	ADP	_	60 other	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 other	det
60	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 smaller	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 giant	punct
62	from	from	ADP	_	65 giant	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 giant	det
64	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	65 giant	amod
65	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 stood	obl
66	down	down	ADV	_	46 stood	advmod
67	to	to	ADP	_	70 dwarf	case
68	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	70 dwarf	det
69	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 dwarf	amod
70	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 stood	obl
71	no	no	ADV	_	72 bigger	advmod
72	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	70 dwarf	amod
73	than	than	ADP	_	75 finger	case
74	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	75 finger	nmod:poss
75	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 bigger	obl
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	fish			again	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	fish					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	past	fish	fish's wife				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus
4	sit	gerund	fish's wife not said here		a lofty throne			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location
5	make	participle		a lofty throne not said here			of solid gold	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	stand	past	fish not said here	wife's guards and attendants	each side of wife		in a row; from the tallest giant; to a little dwarf; down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent guard=Theme on side=Destination

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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