Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 8
‘Did not you ask it for anything?’ said the wife, ‘we live very wretchedly here, in this nasty dirty pigsty; do go back and tell the fish we want a snug little cottage.’
Who acts: you, we · What happens: do, not ask, say, live, go back, tell · To what, where: streak, wife, nasty dirty pigsty, fish, snug little cottage · 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 (you, we), 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 | _ | 2 Did | punct |
| 2 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 ask | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 ask | nsubj |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Did | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ask | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 anything | case |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 ask | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Did | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Did | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wife | det |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 live | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 live | punct |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 live | nsubj |
| 17 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 wretchedly | advmod |
| 19 | wretchedly | wretchedly | ADV | _ | 20 here | advmod |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 live | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 pigsty | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 pigsty | case |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 pigsty | nsubj |
| 24 | nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 pigsty | amod |
| 25 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 pigsty | amod |
| 26 | pigsty | pigsty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 live | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 go | punct |
| 28 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 29 go | aux |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 30 | back | back | ADV | _ | 29 go | advmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 tell | cc |
| 32 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 29 go | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 fish | det |
| 34 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 tell | obj |
| 35 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 want | nsubj |
| 36 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 tell | ccomp |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 cottage | det |
| 38 | snug | snug | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 cottage | amod |
| 39 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 cottage | amod |
| 40 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 want | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 go | punct |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not ask speech: ask | present | you | streak | for anything | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the wife | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | live | present | we | nasty dirty pigsty; here | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pigsty=Location | ||||
| 5 | go back | infinitive · do-support | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | the fish | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent fish=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | want | present | we | a snug little cottage | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cottage=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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