Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 23

When his request was granted he set out on his way, and one day came to a pond, where he saw three fishes caught in the reeds and gasping for water.

Who acts: king, one day · What happens: grant, set out, come, see, catch, gasp · To what, where: request, way, pond, three fishes, reeds

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, one day), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 granted	mark
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 request	nmod:poss
3	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 granted	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 granted	aux:pass
5	granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 set	advcl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 set	nsubj
7	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 set	compound:prt
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 way	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 way	nmod:poss
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 set	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 day	nummod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 set	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 pond	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pond	det
19	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saw	punct
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 saw	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 came	conj
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 fishes	nummod
25	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 saw	obj
26	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 fishes	acl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 reeds	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 reeds	det
29	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 caught	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 gasping	cc
31	gasping	gasp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 caught	conj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 water	case
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gasping	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grant	past · passive		king's request			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
2	set out	past	king		king's way		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	one day		a pond		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pond=Initial_Location
4	see	past	king	three fishes			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus
5	catch	participle		three fishes not said here	the reeds		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	gasp	gerund				for water	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for water=Recipient
7	request		king				nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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