The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 48
“Well, I can’t wait for you,” replied the other; “I am in haste to push on, so farewell.”
Who acts: I, son · What happens: not wait, reply, be, push on · To what, where: other, haste · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, son), 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 | _ | 7 wait | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 wait | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 wait | nsubj |
| 5 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 wait | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 wait | advmod |
| 7 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 wait | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wait | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 other | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 replied | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 haste | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 haste | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 haste | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 haste | cop |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 haste | case |
| 20 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wait | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 push | mark |
| 22 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 haste | acl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 push | compound:prt |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 farewell | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 farewell | advmod |
| 26 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 7 wait | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wait | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wait in a quote | can | I | for you; farewell property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | I not said here | the other | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent other=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | son | haste | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | push on in a quote | to-infinitive | son not said here | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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