The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 168
‘Wife,’ said the fisherman looking at her, ‘are you pope now?’
Who acts: Wife, fisherman, you · What happens: say, look, 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, fisherman, 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 | _ | 2 Wife | punct |
| 2 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wife | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wife | 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 fisherman | det |
| 7 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 fisherman | acl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looking | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pope | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 pope | punct |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 pope | cop |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 pope | nsubj |
| 15 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 pope | advmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 pope | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 pope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Wife | the fisherman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fisherman=Topic | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | the fisherman not said here | at wife | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | you | pope | now | 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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