The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 50
“Wait till I make some preparations for your journey.”
Who acts: you, dust, your · What happens: wait, make, journey · To what, where: preparations
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dust, your), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 2 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 5 make | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 make | nsubj |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Wait | advcl |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 preparations | det |
| 7 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 journey | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 journey | nmod:poss |
| 10 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present | dust | some preparations | for your journey | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent preparation=Product for journey=Asset | |||
| 3 | journey in a quote | your | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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 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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