The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 16
Said his wife, ‘I’ve got nothing, and I don’t know where anything is in this new house.’
Who acts: wife, I, anything · What happens: say, get, not know, be · To what, where: nothing, new house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, I, anything), 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 7 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | aux |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 got | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 know | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | aux |
| 14 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 know | advmod |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 house | advmod |
| 17 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 house | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 house | cop |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 house | det |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 house | amod |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 know | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | husband's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get | present · perfect | I | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | present | anything | this new house | tree rules |
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: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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