The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 152
Go down this instant; I am emperor and you are my husband.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: go down, be · To what, where: instant, emperor, husband
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 (you, 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 instant | det |
| 4 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 emperor | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 emperor | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 emperor | cop |
| 8 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 husband | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 husband | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 husband | cop |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 husband | nmod:poss |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 emperor | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | imperative | you not said here | this instant | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is a | present | I | emperor and my husband | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | you | my husband | 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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