The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 161
‘Alas!’ said the fisherman, ‘she wants to be pope.’
Who acts: wife · What happens: say, want, be · To what, where: fisherman, 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), 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 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fisherman | det |
| 7 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wants | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 wants | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wants | nsubj |
| 11 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 pope | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 pope | cop |
| 14 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wants | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wants | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 wants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the fisherman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fisherman=Topic | |||||
| 2 | want | present | wife | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | wife not said here | 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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