The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 128
‘Go home,’ said the flounder; ‘she is that already.’
Who acts: wife · What happens: go, say, be · 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 | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 Go | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flounder | det |
| 8 | flounder | flounder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 is | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 is | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 is | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 already | mark |
| 14 | already | already | ADV | _ | 12 is | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 is | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | infinitive | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the flounder | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | present | wife | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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