The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 69

‘We will consider the matter,’ said his wife, and they went to bed.

Who acts: We, fisherman · What happens: consider, say, go · To what, where: matter, wife, bed · 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 (We, fisherman), 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	_	4 consider	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 consider	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 consider	aux
4	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 matter	det
6	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consider	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 consider	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 consider	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wife	nmod:poss
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 bed	case
17	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	consider	future	We	the matter		vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent matter=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past		horse's wife		tree rules
3	go	past	fisherman		bed	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_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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