The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 147
‘No, wife,’ said the fisherman; ‘I can’t ask him that.
Who acts: wife, I · What happens: say, not ask · To what, where: fisherman, that, pope · 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, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 wife | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fisherman | det |
| 9 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 ask | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 ask | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 ask | nsubj |
| 13 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 ask | aux |
| 14 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 ask | advmod |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ask | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 ask | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | wife | the fisherman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fisherman=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not ask speech: ask | can | I | that | pope | 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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