The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 80
The children waited for a little, wondering, and then they went away.
Who acts: children · What happens: wait, wonder, go away
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 (children), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 little | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 waited | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wondering | punct |
| 8 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 waited | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 went | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the children | for a little | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | the children not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | go away | past | children = child | then | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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.
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