The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 27

‘Alas!’ said the man, ‘my wife says I ought to have kept you and wished something from you.

Who acts: wife, I · What happens: say, keep, wish · To what, where: man, you, something · 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), 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	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wife	nmod:poss
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 kept	nsubj
14	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 kept	aux
15	to	to	PART	_	17 kept	mark
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 kept	aux
17	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 says	ccomp
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 kept	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wished	cc
20	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 kept	conj
21	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 wished	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 wished	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	my wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	keep	ought · perfect	I	you		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	wish	past	I not said here	something	from you	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot something=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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