The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 105
‘Nay, husband,’ said his wife restlessly, ‘my wishing powers are boundless; I cannot restrain them any longer.
Who acts: husband, wishing powers, I · What happens: say, be, not restrain · To what, where: wife, powers · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (husband, wishing powers, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 husband | punct |
| 4 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 husband | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 husband | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | restlessly | restlessly | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 boundless | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 boundless | punct |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 powers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wishing | wishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 powers | compound |
| 15 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 boundless | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 boundless | cop |
| 17 | boundless | boundless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 restrain | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 restrain | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 restrain | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 restrain | advmod |
| 22 | restrain | restrain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 boundless | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 restrain | obj |
| 24 | any | any | ADV | _ | 25 longer | advmod |
| 25 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 restrain | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | husband | Husband's wife | restlessly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | present | my wishing powers | boundless property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not restrain | can | I | powers = power | long property | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=Eventuality |
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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