The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 42
‘Ah, wife!’ said the fisherman, ‘the cottage is quite good enough; why do we choose to live in a castle?’
Who acts: wife, cottage, we · What happens: say, be, choose, live · To what, where: fisherman, castle · 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, cottage, 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fisherman | det |
| 9 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 good | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 good | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cottage | det |
| 13 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 good | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 good | cop |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 good | advmod |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | obl |
| 17 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 16 good | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 choose | punct |
| 19 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 choose | advmod |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 choose | aux |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 choose | nsubj |
| 22 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 live | mark |
| 24 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 choose | xcomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 castle | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 castle | det |
| 27 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 live | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | wife | the fisherman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fisherman=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the cottage | enough, good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | choose | present · do-support | we | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive | we not said here | a castle | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location |
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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