The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 181
‘Husband,’ said she, poking him in the ribs with her elbows, ‘wake up.
Who acts: Husband · What happens: say, poke, wake up · To what, where: Husband, ribs · 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 (Husband), 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 Husband | punct |
| 2 | Husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Husband | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Husband | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 poking | punct |
| 8 | poking | poke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 poking | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 ribs | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ribs | det |
| 12 | ribs | rib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 poking | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 elbows | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 elbows | nmod:poss |
| 15 | elbows | elbow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 poking | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wake | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 wake | punct |
| 18 | wake | wake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 wake | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | poke | gerund | Husband not said here | Husband | the ribs | with sun's elbows | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent he=Theme with elbow=Instrument | ||
| 3 | wake up | infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: 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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