The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 45
‘No, wife,’ said the man; ‘the flounder gave us the cottage.
Who acts: wife, flounder · What happens: say, give · To what, where: man, cottage, 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 (wife, flounder), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 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 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 flounder | det |
| 13 | flounder | flounder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | iobj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cottage | det |
| 17 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 18 | . | . | 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 man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the flounder | the cottage | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient cottage=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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