The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 151
‘If he can make emperor, he can make, pope too.
Who acts: Husband · What happens: make · 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 (Husband), 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 | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 make | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 make | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 make | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | aux |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pope | punct |
| 12 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 make | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | can | Husband | emperor | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=Product | ||||
| 2 | make | can | Husband | pope | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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