The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 4
The fisher replied: ‘What good, pray, will a castle be to me if I have nothing to eat in it?’
Who acts: fisher, castle, I · What happens: reply, pray, be, have, eat · To what, where: nothing, castle
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 (fisher, castle, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fisher | det |
| 2 | fisher | fisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 good | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 good | punct |
| 6 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 good | nsubj |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pray | punct |
| 9 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 good | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 me | punct |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 me | aux |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 castle | det |
| 13 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 me | nsubj |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 me | cop |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 pray | obl |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 have | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pray | advcl |
| 20 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 have | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 eat | mark |
| 22 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 nothing | acl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 eat | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the fisher | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pray | infinitive | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 3 | is | future | a castle | to me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | I | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | I not said here | nothing not said here | castle | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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