The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 119

But as he went, he felt quite frightened, and he thought to himself, ‘This can’t be right; to be emperor is too ambitious; the flounder will be tired out at last.’

Who acts: emperor, This, flounder · What happens: go, feel, frighten, think, not be, be · To what, where: emperor, last

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 (emperor, This, flounder), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 felt	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 went	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 felt	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 felt	nsubj
7	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	quite	quite	ADV	_	9 frightened	advmod
9	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 felt	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thought	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thought	nsubj
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 felt	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 thought	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 right	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 right	punct
18	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 right	nsubj
19	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 right	aux
20	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 right	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 right	cop
22	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thought	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 ambitious	punct
24	to	to	PART	_	26 emperor	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 emperor	cop
26	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ambitious	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 ambitious	cop
28	too	too	ADV	_	29 ambitious	advmod
29	ambitious	ambitious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 right	conj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 tired	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 flounder	det
32	flounder	flounder	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tired	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 tired	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 tired	cop
35	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 felt	conj
36	out	out	ADP	_	35 tired	compound:prt
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 last	case
38	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 tired	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 felt	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	emperor					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feel	past	emperor					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	frighten	participle	emperor not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	think speech: other	past	emperor		emperor			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not is	can	This				right property	tree rules
6	is a	to-infinitive		emperor				tree rules
7	is	present	emperor				ambitious property	tree rules
8	is	future	the flounder			last	tired property	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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