The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 28
She does not want to live any longer in the hut; she would like a cottage.’
Who acts: wife · What happens: not want, live, like · To what, where: hut, cottage
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), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 want | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 want | advmod |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 live | mark |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | xcomp |
| 7 | any | any | ADV | _ | 8 longer | advmod |
| 8 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 live | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hut | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hut | det |
| 11 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 live | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 like | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 like | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 like | aux |
| 15 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cottage | det |
| 17 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 like | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | present · do-support | wife | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | live not said to happen | to-infinitive | wife not said here | the hut | long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location | |||
| 3 | like | would | wife | a cottage | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cottage=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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