The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 71
Her husband was still sleeping, so she dug her elbows into his side and said:
Who acts: husband, wife · What happens: sleep, dig, say · To what, where: elbows · 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 (husband, 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 husband | nmod:poss |
| 2 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sleeping | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sleeping | aux |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 sleeping | advmod |
| 5 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dug | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 dug | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dug | nsubj |
| 9 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sleeping | conj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 elbows | nmod:poss |
| 11 | elbows | elbow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dug | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 side | nmod:poss |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dug | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dug | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 sleeping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past · progressive | wife's husband | still | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dig | past | wife | wife's elbows | into Husband's side | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent elbow=Instrument into side=Patient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | wife not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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