Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 9

The fisherman did not much like the business: however, he went to the seashore; and when he came back there the water looked all yellow and green.

Who acts: fisherman, water · What happens: do, go, come back, look · To what, where: seashore, yellow

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, water), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fisherman	det
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 business	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 business	det
8	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
10	however	however	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 however	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 seashore	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 seashore	det
16	seashore	seashore	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 looked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 looked	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 came	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 looked	advcl
22	back	back	ADV	_	21 came	advmod
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 came	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 water	det
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 looked	nsubj
26	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 yellow	det
28	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 looked	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 green	cc
30	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 yellow	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	the fisherman			like the business	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	fisherman		the seashore	however property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to seashore=Initial_Location
3	come back	past	fisherman		there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	look	past	the water	all yellow			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme yellow=Attribute

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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