--- title: Everything went right for a week or two, and then Dame Ilsabill said… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Everything went right for a week or two, and then Dame Ilsabill said, ‘Husband, there is not near room enough for us in this cottage; the courtyard and the garden are a great deal too small; I should like to have a large stone castle to live in: go to the fish again and tell him to give us a castle. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/11/23/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [The Fisherman and His Wife](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/11/) / 23 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 23 Everything went right for a week or two, and then Dame Ilsabill said, ‘Husband, there is not near room enough for us in this cottage; the courtyard and the garden are a great deal too small; I should like to have a large stone castle to live in: go to the fish again and tell him to give us a castle.’ **Who acts:** Everything, Dame, near room, courtyard, I · **What happens:** go, say, be, like, have, live in · **To what, where:** Husband, cottage, great deal, large stone castle, room, castle · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Everything, Dame, near room, courtyard), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2591:11:23 # text = Everything went right for a week or two, and then Dame Ilsabill said, ‘Husband, there is not near room enough for us in this cottage; the courtyard and the garden are a great deal too small; I should like to have a large stone castle to live in: go to the fish again and tell him to give us a castle.’ 1 Everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 right right ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ _ 12 Dame Dame PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 Ilsabill Ilsabill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 flat _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 20 expl _ _ 20 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 near near ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 24 enough enough ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 det _ _ 29 cottage cottage NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 courtyard courtyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 36 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 40 too too ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ; ; PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 47 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 xcomp _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 49 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 50 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 51 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ _ 52 to to PART TO _ 53 mark _ _ 53 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 51 acl _ _ 54 in in ADP IN _ 53 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 : : PUNCT : _ 56 punct _ _ 56 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 47 conj _ _ 57 to to ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ _ 60 again again ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 61 and and CCONJ CC _ 62 cc _ _ 62 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 56 conj _ _ 63 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 62 iobj _ _ 64 to to PART TO _ 65 mark _ _ 65 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 62 xcomp _ _ 66 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 65 iobj _ _ 67 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 68 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 70 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Everything | | | | week | right *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dame | Husband | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **be** | present | near room | | | this cottage; there | | for us; enough *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cottage=Location | | 4 | **is a** | present | the courtyard and the garden | a great deal | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **like** | should | I | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a large stone castle | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Patient | | 7 | **live in** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a large stone castle *not said here* | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **go** | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | again | to the fish | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to fish=Initial\_Location | | 9 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | I *not said here* | | room | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 10 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a castle | us | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient castle=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. - ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/11/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/11/24/) - ↑ back to [The Fisherman and His Wife](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/11/)