The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 171
‘Ah, wife, let it be enough now that you are pope.’
Who acts: wife, you · What happens: let, be · To what, where: foot, pope
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, 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 | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 wife | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 let | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 enough | cop |
| 9 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 let | obj |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 pope | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 pope | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 pope | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 pope | cop |
| 14 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 enough | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | wife | foot | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | enough property | tree rules | |||||
| 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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