Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 78

‘Ah!’ said the man, as he gazed upon her, ‘what a fine thing it is to be emperor!’

Who acts: man, thing · What happens: say, gaze, be · To what, where: man, 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 (man, thing), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gazed	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 gazed	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gazed	nsubj
11	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gazed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 what	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 what	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 gazed	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 thing	det
18	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 thing	amod
19	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 what	nsubj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 emperor	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 emperor	cop
22	to	to	PART	_	24 emperor	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 emperor	cop
24	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 thing	acl:relcl
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic
2	gaze	past	man		upon wife	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon she=Theme
3	is a	present	thing	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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