The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 35
‘Yes,’ answered her husband; ‘here we shall remain and live very happily.’
Who acts: we · What happens: answer, remain, live · To what, where: husband · 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 (we), 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 answered | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 remain | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 here | punct |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 remain | advmod |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 remain | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 remain | aux |
| 13 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | ccomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 live | cc |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 remain | conj |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 happily | advmod |
| 17 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 15 live | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | wife's husband | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | remain | shall | we | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live | infinitive | we not said here | happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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