The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 18

‘Alas!’ said the man, ‘why should I go down there again?’

Who acts: I · What happens: say, go down · To what, where: man · 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 (I), 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 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 go	punct
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 go	advmod
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 go	aux
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 go	nsubj
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
14	down	down	ADV	_	15 there	advmod
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 go	advmod
16	again	again	ADV	_	13 go	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 go	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the man					tree rules
2	go down	should	I			there	again		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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