Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 76
And before her stood princes, and dukes, and earls: and the fisherman went up to her and said, ‘Wife, are you emperor?’
Who acts: wife, fisherman, you · What happens: stand, go up, say, be · To what, where: princes, wife, emperor · 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 (wife, fisherman, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 stood | cc |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 stood | mark |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stood | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dukes | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dukes | cc |
| 8 | dukes | duke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stood | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 earls | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 earls | cc |
| 11 | earls | earl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dukes | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fisherman | det |
| 15 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | parataxis |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 went | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 went | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Wife | punct |
| 23 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 Wife | punct |
| 24 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 emperor | punct |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 emperor | cop |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 emperor | nsubj |
| 28 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | wife | princes | dukes and earls obl | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | go up | past | the fisherman | wife | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the fisherman not said here | Wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | you | emperor | tree rules |
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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