The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 77

‘Well,’ said his wife, ‘if you don’t want to be king, I will be king.

Who acts: I · What happens: say, not want, be · To what, where: wife, 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 (I), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 want	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 want	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 do	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 want	aux
13	n’t	n't	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 want	aux
14	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	17 king	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 king	cop
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 want	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 king	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 king	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 king	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 king	cop
22	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		king's wife	tree rules
2	not want	present · do-support			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive		king	tree rules
4	is a	future	I	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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