The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 11
‘Husband,’ said his wife, ‘have you caught nothing to-day?’
Who acts: Husband · What happens: say, catch · To what, where: wife, you · 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), 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 | _ | 2 Husband | punct |
| 2 | Husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Husband | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Husband | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 caught | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 caught | punct |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 caught | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 caught | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 to | punct |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 caught | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 caught | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Husband | Husband's wife | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | present · perfect · passive | you | day | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary nothing=Theme |
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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