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title: The fisherman used to go out all day long a-fishing; and one day, as… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The fisherman used to go out all day long a-fishing; and one day, as he sat on the shore with his rod, looking at the sparkling waves and watching his line, all on a sudden his float was dragged away deep into the water: and in drawing it up he pulled out a great fish. Who acts: fisherman. A sentenc
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 2

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The fisherman used to go out all day long a-fishing; and one day, as he sat on the shore with his rod, looking at the sparkling waves and watching his line, all on a sudden his float was dragged away deep into the water: and in drawing it up he pulled out a great fish.

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**Who acts:** fisherman · **What happens:** use, go out, sit, look, watch, drag away · **To what, where:** fishing, shore, line, all, water, great fish

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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2591:11:2
# text = The fisherman used to go out all day long a-fishing; and one day, as he sat on the shore with his rod, looking at the sparkling waves and watching his line, all on a sudden his float was dragged away deep into the water: and in drawing it up he pulled out a great fish.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	sparkling	sparkling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
38	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	float	float	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	dragged	drag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
46	away	away	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
48	into	into	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	58	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
53	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
54	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	58	advcl	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obj	_	_
56	up	up	ADP	RP	_	54	compound:prt	_	_
57	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
59	out	out	ADP	RP	_	58	compound:prt	_	_
60	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
61	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | the fisherman |  |  |  | day |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go out** | to-infinitive | the fisherman *not said here* | a fishing |  |  | day | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sit** | past | fisherman |  |  | the shore |  | with fisherman's rod | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shore=Location |
| 4 | **look** | gerund | fisherman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the sparkling waves | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wave=Theme |
| 5 | **watch** | gerund | fisherman *not said here* | fisherman's line |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme |
| 6 | **drag away** | past · passive |  | all |  | the water |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **draw up** | gerund | fisherman *not said here* | line |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 8 | **pull out** | past | fisherman | a great fish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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