The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 59

‘Go home; she is standing before the door,’ said the flounder.

Who acts: wife · What happens: go, stand, say · To what, where: door, flounder · 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), 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 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 Go	advmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 standing	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 standing	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 standing	aux
7	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Go	advcl
8	before	before	ADP	_	10 door	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 standing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 flounder	det
15	flounder	flounder	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	infinitive				home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	present · progressive	wife		the door		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before door=Location
3	say speech: assert	past		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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