The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 129
“The night is warm, and we can wait here till morning.
Who acts: night, we · What happens: be, wait
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, we), 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 | _ | 5 warm | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 warm | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 warm | cop |
| 5 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wait | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wait | cc |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 wait | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 wait | aux |
| 10 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 warm | parataxis |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 wait | advmod |
| 12 | till | till | ADP | _ | 13 morning | case |
| 13 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wait | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 warm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the night | warm property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wait in a quote | can | we | here | morning | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/29/129/