The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 2

One day the man, whose name was Simon, said to his wife, whose name was Susan, ‘Why should we keep our old cat any longer?

Who acts: name, man, we, Simon, wife · What happens: be, say, keep, name · To what, where: Simon, Susan, old cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The War of the Wolf and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, man, we, Simon), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Simon	punct
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	7 name	nmod:poss
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Simon	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Simon	cop
9	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 man	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 wife	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wife	nmod:poss
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Susan	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 name	punct
16	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	17 name	nmod:poss
17	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wife	conj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 Susan	cop
19	Susan	Susan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 keep	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 keep	punct
22	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	25 keep	advmod
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 keep	aux
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 keep	nsubj
25	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	conj
26	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 cat	nmod:poss
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 cat	amod
28	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 keep	obj
29	any	any	ADV	_	30 longer	advmod
30	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 keep	advmod
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Simon's name	Simon			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the man and Simon		day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past		Susan		to Simon's wife and Simon's wife and wife's name's name	tree rules
4	keep	should	we	our old cat		long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme
5	name		Simon				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent
6	name		Simon's wife and Simon's wife and name's name				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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