The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 109
‘Ah, wife,’ he said, ‘he cannot make you emperor; I don’t like to ask him that.
Who acts: Husband, I · What happens: say, not make, not like, ask · To what, where: emperor, you, that, Husband · 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, 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 | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 wife | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ‘ | SCONJ | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 make | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 make | advmod |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 like | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 like | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 like | aux |
| 20 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 like | advmod |
| 21 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 ask | mark |
| 23 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 like | xcomp |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ask | obj |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 ask | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not make | can | Husband | emperor | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary emperor=Product | |||
| 3 | not like | present · do-support | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | that | Husband | 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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