--- title: So he went home again; and as he came near he saw his wife Ilsabill… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So he went home again; and as he came near he saw his wife Ilsabill sitting on a very lofty throne made of solid gold, with a great crown on her head full two yards high; and on each side of her stood her guards and attendants in a row, each one smaller than the other, from the tallest giant down to --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/11/75/) [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/) / 75 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 75 So he went home again; and as he came near he saw his wife Ilsabill sitting on a very lofty throne made of solid gold, with a great crown on her head full two yards high; and on each side of her stood her guards and attendants in a row, each one smaller than the other, from the tallest giant down to a little dwarf no bigger than my finger. **Who acts:** fish, wife · **What happens:** go, come, see, sit, make, stand · **To what, where:** wife, lofty throne, guards, 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 (fish, 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:pg2591:11:75 # text = So he went home again; and as he came near he saw his wife Ilsabill sitting on a very lofty throne made of solid gold, with a great crown on her head full two yards high; and on each side of her stood her guards and attendants in a row, each one smaller than the other, from the tallest giant down to a little dwarf no bigger than my finger. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 home home ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 again again ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 near near ADP IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 Ilsabill Ilsabill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 17 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 very very ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 lofty lofty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 throne throne NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 36 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 yards yard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl:unmarked _ _ 38 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ; ; PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 41 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 43 det _ _ 43 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nmod _ _ 46 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 47 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 guards guard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 attendants attendant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 conj _ _ 51 in in ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 row row NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 55 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 56 det _ _ 56 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 appos _ _ 57 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 56 amod _ _ 58 than than ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 62 from from ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 64 tallest tall ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 65 amod _ _ 65 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 66 down down ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 67 to to ADP IN _ 70 case _ _ 68 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 70 det _ _ 69 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 70 amod _ _ 70 dwarf dwarf NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 71 no no ADV RB _ 72 advmod _ _ 72 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 70 amod _ _ 73 than than ADP IN _ 75 case _ _ 74 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 75 nmod:poss _ _ 75 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 72 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 76 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | fish | | | | again | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **come** | past | fish | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **see** | past | fish | fish's wife | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | | 4 | **sit** | gerund | fish's wife *not said here* | | | a lofty throne | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location | | 5 | **make** | participle | | a lofty throne *not said here* | | | | of solid gold | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 6 | **stand** | past | fish *not said here* | wife's guards and attendants | | each side of wife | | in a row; from the tallest giant; to a little dwarf; down *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent guard=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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/11/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/11/76/) - ↑ back to [The Fisherman and His Wife](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/11/)