The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 41
Go down to the flounder, and tell him to send us a castle.’
Who acts: you · What happens: go down, tell, send · To what, where: flounder, castle, us · 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 (you), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 flounder | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 flounder | det |
| 5 | flounder | flounder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tell | cc |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | iobj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 send | mark |
| 11 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tell | xcomp |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 send | iobj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 castle | det |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 send | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | imperative | you not said here | to the flounder; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | flounder | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | send not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | a castle | us | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination castle=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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