The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 13
But Psst and Hush had not waited for orders, and in five minutes the man was caught.
What happens: not wait, catch · To what, where: Psst, man
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 waited | cc |
| 2 | Psst | Psst | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 waited | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Hush | cc |
| 4 | Hush | Hush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Psst | conj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 waited | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 waited | advmod |
| 7 | waited | wait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 orders | case |
| 9 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 waited | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 caught | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 caught | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 minutes | case |
| 13 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 minutes | nummod |
| 14 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 caught | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 caught | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 caught | aux:pass |
| 18 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 waited | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wait | past · perfect · passive | Psst and Hush | for orders | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | past · passive | the man | minute | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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