The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 27
I expect it will be quite dark before he comes back again.”
Who acts: I, forest, Ingiborg · What happens: expect, be, come back
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, forest, Ingiborg), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 expect | nsubj |
| 2 | expect | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dark | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 dark | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dark | cop |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 dark | advmod |
| 7 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 expect | ccomp |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 comes | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 comes | nsubj |
| 10 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 expect | advcl |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 comes | advmod |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 comes | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 expect | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | present | I | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | future | forest | dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come back | present | Ingiborg | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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