The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 17

Go now and call him; say to him that we choose to have a cottage, and he will certainly give it you.’

Who acts: you, we, man · What happens: go, call, say, choose, have, give · To what, where: man, cottage, you · 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 (you, we, man), 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	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Go	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 call	cc
4	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 call	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	parataxis
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 say	obl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 choose	mark
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 choose	nsubj
12	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 have	mark
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 choose	xcomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cottage	det
16	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 give	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 give	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 give	aux
21	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	22 give	advmod
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 give	obj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 give	iobj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here			now		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call	infinitive	you not said here		man			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	infinitive			man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	choose	present	we					tree rules
5	have	to-infinitive	we not said here	a cottage				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cottage=Patient
6	give	future	man	cottage	you		certainly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient it=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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