Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 4

Then the queen took pity on the little fish, and threw it back again into the river; and before it swam away it lifted its head out of the water and said, ‘I know what your wish is, and it shall be fulfilled, in return for your kindness to me--you will soon have a daughter.’

Who acts: queen, fish, I, wish, you, your · What happens: take, throw back, swim away, lift, say, know · To what, where: pity, fish, river, head, water, return · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, fish, I, wish), 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 took	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 queen	det
3	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 fish	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fish	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fish	amod
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 threw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 threw	cc
12	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 threw	obj
14	back	back	ADV	_	12 threw	advmod
15	again	again	ADV	_	12 threw	advmod
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 river	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 river	det
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 threw	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 lifted	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 lifted	cc
21	before	before	SCONJ	_	23 swam	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 swam	nsubj
23	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 lifted	advcl
24	away	away	ADV	_	23 swam	advmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 lifted	nsubj
26	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 head	nmod:poss
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lifted	obj
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 water	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 water	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 water	det
32	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lifted	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 said	cc
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 lifted	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 know	punct
36	‘	'	PUNCT	_	38 know	punct
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 know	nsubj
38	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 said	ccomp
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 know	ccomp
40	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 wish	nmod:poss
41	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 what	nsubj
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 what	cop
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 fulfilled	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 fulfilled	cc
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 fulfilled	nsubj:pass
46	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 fulfilled	aux
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 fulfilled	aux:pass
48	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 took	parataxis
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 return	punct
50	in	in	ADP	_	51 return	case
51	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 fulfilled	obl
52	for	for	ADP	_	54 kindness	case
53	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 kindness	nmod:poss
54	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 return	nmod
55	to	to	ADP	_	56 me	case
56	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 kindness	nmod
57	--	--	PUNCT	_	61 have	punct
58	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	61 have	nsubj
59	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 have	aux
60	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	61 have	advmod
61	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 fulfilled	conj
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 daughter	det
63	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 have	obj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct
65	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the queen	pity		then	on the little fish	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on fish=Destination
2	throw back	past	the queen not said here	fish		again	into the river result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into river=Result
3	swim away	past	fish				away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lift	past	fish	fish's head	the water			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme out water=Destination
5	say speech: assert	past	fish not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	know	present	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a	present	your wish					tree rules
8	fulfil	shall · passive		fish	return for your kindness to me			tree rules
9	have	future	you	a daughter			soon property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
10	wish		your					nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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