Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 24

Now, though it is said that fishes are dumb, he heard them lamenting that they must perish so miserably, and, as he had a kind heart, he got off his horse and put the three prisoners back into the water.

Who acts: fishes, king · What happens: say, be, hear, lament, perish, have · To what, where: request, fishes, kind heart, horse, three prisoners, water · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (fishes, king), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 heard	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 said	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	aux:pass
6	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 heard	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 dumb	mark
8	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dumb	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dumb	cop
10	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	nsubj
13	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	obj
15	lamenting	lament	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 heard	xcomp
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 perish	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 perish	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 perish	aux
19	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 lamenting	xcomp
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 miserably	advmod
21	miserably	miserably	ADV	_	19 perish	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 got	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 got	cc
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 and	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 had	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 got	advcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 heart	det
29	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 heart	amod
30	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 got	nsubj
33	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heard	parataxis
34	off	off	ADP	_	33 got	compound:prt
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 horse	nmod:poss
36	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 got	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 put	cc
38	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 got	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 prisoners	det
40	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 prisoners	nummod
41	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 put	obj
42	back	back	ADV	_	38 put	advmod
43	into	into	ADP	_	45 water	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 water	det
45	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 put	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive		request				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	is	present	fishes				dumb property	tree rules
3	hear	past	king	fishes = fish		now		tree rules
4	lament	gerund	fishes = fish not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	perish	must	fishes = fish				miserably property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	have	past	king	a kind heart				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
7	get off	past	king	king's horse				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus
8	put	infinitive	king not said here	the three prisoners	the water			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent prisoner=Goal

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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