The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 149
The flounder cannot make you pope.’
Who acts: flounder · What happens: not make · To what, where: pope, you
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 flounder | det |
| 2 | flounder | flounder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 make | advmod |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 make | obj |
| 7 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | can | the flounder | pope | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary pope=Product |
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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