The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 179

The fisherman slept well and soundly, for he had done a great deal that day, but his wife could not sleep at all, and turned from one side to another the whole night long, and thought, till she could think no longer, what more she could become.

Who acts: fisherman, emperor, wife · What happens: sleep, do, not sleep, turn, think, become · To what, where: great deal, all, one side

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 (fisherman, emperor, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fisherman	det
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slept	nsubj
3	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 slept	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 soundly	cc
6	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	4 well	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 done	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 done	case
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 done	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 done	aux
11	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 slept	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 deal	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 deal	amod
14	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 done	obj
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 deal	nmod:unmarked
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sleep	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 sleep	cc
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wife	nmod:poss
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sleep	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 sleep	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 sleep	advmod
23	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 slept	conj
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 all	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 sleep	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 turned	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 turned	cc
28	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slept	conj
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 side	case
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 side	nummod
31	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 turned	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	36 night	case
33	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	36 night	det
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 night	det
35	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 night	amod
36	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 turned	obl
37	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 night	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 thought	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 thought	cc
40	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slept	parataxis
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 think	punct
42	till	till	SCONJ	_	45 think	mark
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 think	nsubj
44	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 think	aux
45	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 thought	ccomp
46	no	no	ADV	_	47 longer	advmod
47	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	45 think	advmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 become	punct
49	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	53 become	nsubj
50	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	53 become	nsubj
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 become	nsubj
52	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 become	aux
53	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 think	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	the fisherman				well property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	past · perfect	emperor	a great deal that day				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Eventuality
3	not sleep	could	emperor's wife		all			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	turn	past	the fisherman not said here		one side	night		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from side=Trajectory
5	think speech: other	past						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	think speech: other	could	wife				long property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	become	could						vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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