The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 104

Now we have nothing more to wish for.’

Who acts: we · What happens: have, wish · To what, where: nothing

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 (we), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 have	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 have	obj
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 nothing	amod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 wish	mark
7	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nothing	acl
8	for	for	ADP	_	7 wish	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	we	nothing			now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	wish	to-infinitive	we not said here	nothing not said here					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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