Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 88

At this sight the fisherman was dreadfully frightened, and he trembled so that his knees knocked together: but still he went down near to the shore, and said:

Who acts: fisherman, knees · What happens: frighten, tremble, knock together, go down, say · To what, where: fisherman, sight · 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 (fisherman, knees), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 sight	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 sight	det
3	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 frightened	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fisherman	det
5	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 frightened	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 frightened	aux:pass
7	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	_	8 frightened	advmod
8	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 trembled	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 trembled	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 trembled	nsubj
12	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 frightened	conj
13	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 knocked	mark
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 so	fixed
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 knees	nmod:poss
16	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 knocked	nsubj
17	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 trembled	advcl
18	together	together	ADV	_	17 knocked	advmod
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
21	still	still	ADV	_	23 went	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 trembled	conj
24	down	down	ADV	_	23 went	advmod
25	near	near	ADV	_	23 went	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 shore	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 shore	det
28	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 said	cc
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		the fisherman	this sight		dreadfully property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	tremble	past	fisherman					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	knock together	past	fisherman's knees				together property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	go down	past	fisherman			still	to the shore; down, near property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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