The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 39

‘Listen, husband; the cottage is much too small, and so is the yard and the garden; the flounder might just as well have sent us a larger house.

Who acts: you, cottage · What happens: listen, be, send · To what, where: husband, yard, flounder

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 (you, cottage), 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 Listen	punct
2	Listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 husband	punct
4	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Listen	obl
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 small	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cottage	det
7	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 small	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 small	cop
9	much	much	ADV	_	11 small	advmod
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 small	advmod
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Listen	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 yard	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 yard	cc
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 yard	advmod
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 yard	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 yard	det
17	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 small	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 garden	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 garden	det
20	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 yard	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 sent	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 flounder	det
23	flounder	flounder	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sent	nsubj:pass
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 sent	aux
25	just	just	ADV	_	29 sent	advmod
26	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	29 sent	cc
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 as	fixed
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 sent	aux
29	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Listen	advcl
30	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 sent	obj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 house	det
32	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 house	amod
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sent	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	listen	imperative	you not said here	husband		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the cottage		small property	tree rules
3	is a	present		the yard and the garden		tree rules
4	send	might · perfect · passive		the flounder		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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