The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 33
Still, if you will wait till to-morrow I may be able to tell you something.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: wait, be, tell · To what, where: something, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 6 wait | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Still | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 wait | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 wait | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 wait | aux |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 able | mark |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 morrow | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 to | punct |
| 10 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 able | obl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 able | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 able | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 able | cop |
| 14 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wait | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 tell | mark |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 able | xcomp |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | iobj |
| 18 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 tell | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wait | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | future | you | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | may | I | to morrow; able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | I not said here | something | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Topic |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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