The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 73
Could we not become the king of all this land?
Who acts: we · What happens: not become · To what, where: king
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), 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 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 become | aux |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 become | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 become | advmod |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 become | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 land | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 land | det:predet |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 land | det |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 king | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not become | could | we | the king of all land | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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