The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 3
He had not long to wait, after the ogress came home, before he knew what his punishment was to be!
Who acts: man, ogress, punishment · What happens: have, wait, come, know, be, punish · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, ogress, punishment), 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 | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 had | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 wait | mark |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 long | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ogress | det |
| 10 | ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 knew | punct |
| 14 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 16 knew | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 knew | nsubj |
| 16 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 knew | ccomp |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 punishment | nmod:poss |
| 19 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 what | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 be | cop |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 be | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 what | cop |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | man | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wait | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the ogress | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know | past | man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a | infinitive | man's punishment | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | punish | man | nom punishment «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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