The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 34
‘See,’ said the wife, ‘isn’t this nice?’
Who acts: wife · What happens: see, say, not be · 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), 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 See | punct |
| 2 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | 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 wife | det |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nice | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ‘ | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wife | conj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 nice | cop |
| 11 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 nice | advmod |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 nice | nsubj |
| 13 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 nice | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | not is | present | the wife and ‘ | nice property | 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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