The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 38

He did not have to wait long before one of the royal servants passed by and bought all the apples, begging as he did so that the merchant should return and bring some more.

Who acts: Tiidu, merchant · What happens: not have, wait, pass by, buy, beg, do · To what, where: royal servants, apples, more

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu, merchant), 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 have	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wait	mark
6	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 wait	advmod
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 one	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 wait	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 servants	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 servants	det
12	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 servants	amod
13	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 one	nmod
14	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 servants	acl
15	by	by	ADP	_	14 passed	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bought	cc
17	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wait	conj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 apples	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 apples	det
20	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bought	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 begging	punct
22	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 bought	advcl
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 did	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 did	nsubj
25	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 return	advcl
26	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	31 return	mark
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 so	fixed
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 merchant	det
29	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 return	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 return	aux
31	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 begging	ccomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 bring	cc
33	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 return	conj
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 more	det
35	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 bring	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not have	past · do-support	Tiidu				tree rules
2	wait	to-infinitive	Tiidu not said here		before one of the royal servants	long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before one=Location
3	pass by	participle		the royal servants not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	buy	past	Tiidu not said here	all apples			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme
5	beg speech: request	gerund	Tiidu not said here				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	do	past	Tiidu				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	return	should	the merchant				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	bring	infinitive	the merchant not said here	some more			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent more=Theme

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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