The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 75
‘Ah, wife!’ replied her husband, ‘why should we be king?
Who acts: wife, we · What happens: reply, be · To what, where: husband, 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 (wife, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 husband | nmod:poss |
| 9 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 king | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 king | punct |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 king | advmod |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 king | aux |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 king | nsubj |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 king | cop |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 husband | appos |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | wife | wife's husband | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent husband=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | should | we | 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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