The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 21
The man did not like going at all, but as his wife was not to be persuaded, he went down to the sea.
Who acts: man · What happens: not like, go, not be, go down · To what, where: all, wife
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 like | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 like | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 like | xcomp |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 going | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 persuaded | mark |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 persuaded | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 persuaded | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 persuaded | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 persuaded | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 persuaded | aux:pass |
| 18 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 went | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 persuaded | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | parataxis |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 sea | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sea | det |
| 25 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | past · do-support | the man | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | gerund | the man not said here | all | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location | ||||
| 3 | not is | past · passive | man's wife | persuade property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go down | past | man | to the sea; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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