The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 137
‘Wife, are you emperor now?’
Who acts: Wife · What happens: be · To what, where: emperor
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 Wife | punct |
| 2 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 emperor | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wife | punct |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 emperor | cop |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 emperor | nsubj |
| 6 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 emperor | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 emperor | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 emperor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Wife | emperor | now | 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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