The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 9

I simply cannot wait to embrace you!

Who acts: I · What happens: not wait, embrace · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cock and the Fox. 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 wait	nsubj
2	simply	simply	ADV	_	5 wait	advmod
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 wait	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 wait	advmod
5	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 embrace	mark
7	embrace	embrace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wait	advcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 embrace	obj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wait	can	I					simply property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	embrace	to-infinitive	I not said here	you					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent

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 Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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