The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 1

There was once a fisherman and his wife who lived together in a little hut close to the sea, and the fisherman used to go down every day to fish; and he would fish and fish.

Who acts: wife, fisherman · What happens: live together, use, go down · To what, where: little hut

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of 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, fisherman), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 would	cop
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fisherman	det
5	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wife	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fisherman	conj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 lived	nsubj
10	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wife	acl:relcl
11	together	together	ADV	_	10 lived	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 hut	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hut	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hut	amod
15	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lived	obl
16	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hut	amod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 sea	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sea	det
19	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 close	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 used	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 used	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fisherman	det
23	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 used	nsubj
24	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 go	mark
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 used	xcomp
27	down	down	ADV	_	26 go	advmod
28	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	29 day	det
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl:unmarked
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 fish	case
31	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 would	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 would	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 would	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
36	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 would	nsubj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 fish	cc
38	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 fish	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 would	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	live together	past	his wife	a little hut		together property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location
2	use	past	the fisherman				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	go down	to-infinitive	the fisherman not said here		day	to fish; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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