The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 126
‘What does she want now?’ asked flounder.
Who acts: wife · What happens: want, ask · To what, where: flounder · 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), 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 | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 want | obj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 want | aux |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 want | nsubj |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 want | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | flounder | flounder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present · do-support | wife | now | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | flounder | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent flounder=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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