The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 50
The fisherman’s heart was very heavy, and he did not like going.
Who acts: heart, Go · What happens: be, not like, go
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 (heart, Go), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fisherman | det |
| 2 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 fisherman | case |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heavy | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heavy | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 heavy | advmod |
| 7 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 like | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 like | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 like | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 like | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 like | advmod |
| 13 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 heavy | conj |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 like | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heavy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the fisherman's heart | heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not like | past · do-support | Go | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | gerund | Go not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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