Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 95
Then the fisherman went home, and found Ilsabill sitting on a throne that was two miles high.
Who acts: fisherman, Ilsabill, throne · What happens: go, find, sit, be · To what, where: Ilsabill, throne
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, Ilsabill, throne), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fisherman | det |
| 3 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 found | cc |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 9 | Ilsabill | Ilsabill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 10 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 found | xcomp |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 throne | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 throne | det |
| 13 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sitting | obl |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 high | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 high | cop |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 miles | nummod |
| 17 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 high | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 throne | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the fisherman | then | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | past | the fisherman not said here | Ilsabill | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent ilsabill=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit | gerund | Ilsabill not said here | a throne | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | a throne | two miles obl:unmarked; high property | 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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