--- title: And when he went in he saw his wife sitting on a throne of gold and… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And when he went in he saw his wife sitting on a throne of gold and diamonds, with a golden crown upon her head; and on each side of her stood six fair maidens, each a head taller than the other. Who acts: fisherman, wife. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fisherman and His Wif --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/11/55/) [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/) / 55 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 55 And when he went in he saw his wife sitting on a throne of gold and diamonds, with a golden crown upon her head; and on each side of her stood six fair maidens, each a head taller than the other. **Who acts:** fisherman, wife · **What happens:** go in, see, sit, stand · **To what, where:** wife, throne, six fair maidens, side 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, wife), 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:pg2591:11:55 # text = And when he went in he saw his wife sitting on a throne of gold and diamonds, with a golden crown upon her head; and on each side of her stood six fair maidens, each a head taller than the other. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 4 obl _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 throne throne NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 diamonds diamond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 23 upon upon ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 30 det _ _ 30 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nmod _ _ 33 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 34 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 35 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 maidens maiden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 40 det _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl:unmarked _ _ 41 taller tall ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 36 conj _ _ 42 than than ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go in** | past | fisherman | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **see** | past | fisherman | fisherman's wife | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | | 3 | **sit** | gerund | fisherman's wife *not said here* | | | a throne of gold and diamonds | | with a golden crown upon wife's head | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location | | 4 | **stand** | past | fisherman *not said here* | six fair maidens | | each side of wife | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme on side=Destination | 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 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/11/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/11/56/) - ↑ back to [The Fisherman and His Wife](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/11/)