The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 45
“The giants can wait a little,” he said.
Who acts: giants, Niels · What happens: wait, say · To what, where: little · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giants, Niels), 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 wait | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 giants | det |
| 3 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wait | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | aux |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 little | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wait | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | can | the giants | a little | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Niels | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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