Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 84

‘What nonsense!’ said she; ‘if he can make an emperor, he can make a pope: go and try him.’

Who acts: pope, fish · What happens: nonsense, say, make, go, try · To what, where: emperor, pope, fish · 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 (pope, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 nonsense	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 nonsense	nsubj
3	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	_	6 said	ccomp
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 nonsense	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 nonsense	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 make	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 make	aux
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 emperor	det
15	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 make	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 make	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 make	aux
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 make	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pope	det
21	pope	pope	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 make	obj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 go	punct
23	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 make	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 try	cc
25	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 go	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 try	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	nonsense				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	pope		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make a condition, not said to happen	can	fish	a emperor	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=Product
4	make	can	fish	a pope	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pope=Product
5	go	infinitive			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	try	infinitive		fish	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality

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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