Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 81

‘O wife, wife!’ said he, ‘how can you be pope? there is but one pope at a time in Christendom.’

Who acts: wife, you, one pope · What happens: say, be · To what, where: pope · 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 (wife, you, one pope), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 wife	punct
2	O	o	INTJ	_	3 wife	discourse
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wife	punct
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wife	conj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 wife	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 wife	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 he	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 pope	punct
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 pope	advmod
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 pope	aux
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 pope	nsubj
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 pope	cop
16	pope	pope	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 he	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 is	punct
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 is	expl
19	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 pope	cc
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 pope	nummod
22	pope	pope	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 is	nsubj
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 time	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 time	det
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pope	nmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 Christendom	case
27	Christendom	Christendom	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 time	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 pope	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 pope	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	wife and wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	can	you	pope		tree rules
3	be	present	one pope at a time in Christendom		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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