The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 204
‘Alas!’ said he, ‘she wants to be a god.’
Who acts: flounder, wife · What happens: say, want, be · To what, where: god · 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 (flounder, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wants | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 wants | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wants | nsubj |
| 10 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 god | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 god | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 god | det |
| 14 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wants | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 wants | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 wants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | flounder | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | want | present | wife | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | wife not said here | a god | tree rules |
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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