The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 60
The fisherman went home and thought he would find no house.
Who acts: fisherman, flounder · What happens: go, think, find · To what, where: house · 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 (fisherman, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fisherman | det |
| 2 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 thought | cc |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 find | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | aux |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the fisherman | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the fisherman not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | would | flounder | no house | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic |
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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