The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 84
So the fisherman went, though much vexed that his wife wanted to be king.
Who acts: fisherman, wife · What happens: go, vex, want, 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 (fisherman, wife), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fisherman | det |
| 3 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 vexed | punct |
| 6 | though | though | ADV | _ | 8 vexed | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 vexed | advmod |
| 8 | vexed | vex | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 wanted | mark |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wanted | nsubj |
| 12 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 vexed | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 king | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 king | cop |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wanted | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the fisherman | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | vex | past | the fisherman not said here | though property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | want | past | king's wife | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | king's wife not said here | 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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