The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 186

‘Husband,’ she said, ‘if I cannot make the sun and man rise when I appear I cannot rest.

Who acts: wife, I, sun · What happens: say, not make, rise, appear, not rest · 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 (wife, I, sun), 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	6 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Husband	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Husband	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 make	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 make	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 make	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 make	advmod
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sun	det
15	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rise	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 man	cc
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sun	conj
18	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 make	parataxis
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 appear	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 appear	nsubj
21	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 rise	advcl
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 rest	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 rest	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 rest	advmod
25	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 appear	ccomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	wife	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not make a condition, not said to happen	can	I	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	rise	present	the sun and man	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	appear	present	I	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	not rest	can	I	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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