More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 120

He had not waited long, when he saw them coming with a waggon to fetch wood for fuel.

Who acts: John, woods · What happens: not wait, see, come, fetch · To what, where: woods, wood

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, woods), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 waited	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waited	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 waited	advmod
4	waited	wait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 waited	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 saw	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waited	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	obj
11	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 saw	xcomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 waggon	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 waggon	det
14	waggon	waggon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 coming	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 fetch	mark
16	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 coming	advcl
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fetch	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 fuel	case
19	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fetch	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not wait	past · perfect	John			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	John	woods = wood		tree rules
3	come	gerund	woods = wood not said here		with a waggon	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fetch	to-infinitive	woods = wood not said here	wood	for fuel	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wood=Theme for fuel=Source

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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