The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 107

‘Alas! wife,’ said the fisherman, ‘why do you want to be emperor?’

Who acts: wife, you · What happens: say, want, be · To what, where: fisherman, emperor · 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 (wife, you), 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	_	4 wife	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	4 wife	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wife	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 wife	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fisherman	det
9	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fisherman	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 want	punct
12	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 want	advmod
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 want	aux
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 want	nsubj
15	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	18 emperor	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 emperor	cop
18	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 want	xcomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 want	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	wife	the fisherman	tree rules
2	want	present · do-support	you		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	emperor	tree rules

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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