Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 42

He stood on the shore and considered what he should do, when suddenly he saw three fishes come swimming towards him, and they were the very fishes whose lives he had saved.

Who acts: youth, three fishes, fishes · What happens: stand, consider, do, see, come, swim · To what, where: shore, lives

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 (youth, three fishes, fishes), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 shore	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shore	det
5	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 considered	cc
7	considered	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 do	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 considered	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 saw	advmod
14	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	16 saw	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 fishes	nummod
18	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 come	nsubj
19	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 saw	conj
20	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 come	xcomp
21	towards	towards	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 swimming	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fishes	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fishes	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 fishes	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 fishes	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fishes	det
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 fishes	advmod
29	fishes	fish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
30	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	31 lives	nmod:poss
31	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fishes	obj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 saved	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 saved	aux
34	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 lives	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	youth		the shore		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shore=Location
2	consider	past	youth not said here				vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	do	should	youth				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	see	past	youth			suddenly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	come	present	three fishes				tree rules
6	swim	gerund	three fishes not said here			towards youth	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination
7	is	past	fishes = fish			fish property	tree rules
8	save	past · perfect	youth	lives not said here			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme

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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