The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 142
I am emperor now, and I want to be pope too; go down to the flounder.’
Who acts: I · What happens: be, want, go down · To what, where: emperor, pope
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 emperor | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 emperor | cop |
| 3 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 emperor | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 want | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 want | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 want | nsubj |
| 8 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 emperor | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 pope | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 pope | cop |
| 11 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 want | xcomp |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 want | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 want | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 flounder | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 flounder | det |
| 18 | flounder | flounder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 emperor | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 emperor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | emperor | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | want | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | pope | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go down | infinitive | I not said here | to the flounder; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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