The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 74

Go down to the flounder and tell him we choose to be king.’

Who acts: you, we · What happens: go down, tell, choose, be · To what, where: flounder, king · 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 (you, 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	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 flounder	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flounder	det
5	flounder	flounder	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tell	cc
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 choose	nsubj
10	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	13 king	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 king	cop
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 choose	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go down	imperative	you not said here			to the flounder; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		flounder		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	choose	present	we				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a	to-infinitive		king			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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