The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 16

‘Ah!’ said the woman, ‘it’s dreadful to have to live all one’s life in this hut that is so small and dirty; you ought to have wished for a cottage.

Who acts: woman, it, hut, you · What happens: say, be, have, live, wish · To what, where: life, hut · 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 (woman, it, hut, you), 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 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dreadful	nsubj
11	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dreadful	cop
12	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 have	mark
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 dreadful	xcomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 live	mark
16	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 have	xcomp
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 life	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 one	case
20	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 live	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 hut	case
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 hut	det
23	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 live	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 small	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 small	cop
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 small	advmod
27	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hut	acl:relcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 dirty	cc
29	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 small	conj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 wished	punct
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 wished	nsubj
32	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 wished	aux
33	to	to	PART	_	35 wished	mark
34	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 wished	aux
35	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	conj
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 cottage	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 cottage	det
38	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wished	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it			dreadful property	tree rules
3	have	to-infinitive					tree rules
4	live	to-infinitive		all one's life	this hut		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location
5	is	present	this hut			small property	tree rules
6	be		this hut not said here				tree rules
7	wish	ought · perfect	you			for a cottage	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for cottage=Theme

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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