The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 125
Come! for my wife, Ilsebel, Wishes what I dare not tell.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: come, wish, tell · To what, where: ’ · 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 (you, 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 wife | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Come | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ilsebel | punct |
| 7 | Ilsebel | Ilsebel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wife | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Wishes | punct |
| 9 | Wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 tell | obj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 tell | nsubj |
| 12 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 tell | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 dare | advmod |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Wishes | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Come | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | ’ | for my wife | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | wish | present | you not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present | I | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
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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