The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 19

‘Why,’ said his wife, ‘you caught him, and then let him go again, so he is sure to give you what you ask.

Who acts: you, man · What happens: say, catch, let, go, be, give · To what, where: wife, man, you · 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 (you, man), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 caught	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 caught	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 caught	nsubj
11	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 caught	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 let	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 let	advmod
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	again	again	ADV	_	18 go	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sure	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	24 sure	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sure	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sure	cop
24	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 give	mark
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sure	xcomp
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 give	iobj
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 ask	obj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 ask	nsubj
30	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 give	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		man's wife				tree rules
2	catch	past	you	man				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	let	infinitive		man		then		tree rules
4	go	infinitive	man not said here			again		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	man				sure property	tree rules
6	give	to-infinitive	man not said here		you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
7	ask speech: ask	present	you					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

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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