The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 78

Go down to the flounder; I will be king.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: go down, be · 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 (you, 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	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	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 king	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 king	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 king	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 king	cop
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	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	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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