The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 205

‘Go home, then; she is sitting again in the hut.’

Who acts: you, wife · What happens: go, sit · To what, where: hut

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, 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	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 Go	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 then	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Go	advmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 sitting	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sitting	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sitting	aux
9	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Go	advcl
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 sitting	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 hut	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hut	det
13	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here				then	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	present · progressive	wife			the hut	again		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hut=Location

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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