The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 127

‘Alas! flounder,’ he said, ‘my wife wants to be emperor.’

Who acts: flounder, wife · What happens: say, want, be · To what, where: emperor · 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 (flounder, 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	_	4 flounder	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	4 flounder	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	flounder	flounder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 flounder	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 flounder	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	_	8 said	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 wants	punct
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wants	nsubj
13	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	16 emperor	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 emperor	cop
16	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wants	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 wants	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 wants	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	flounder		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	want	present	my wife		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	my wife not said here	emperor	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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