The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 91
“I am waiting for you, O prince”; and the next minute the dragon reared himself out of the water, huge and horrible to see.
Who acts: voice, next minute · What happens: wait, rear, see · To what, where: O prince, Dragon, water
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, next minute), 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 | _ | 4 waiting | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 waiting | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 waiting | aux |
| 4 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 waiting | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 prince | punct |
| 8 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 prince | compound |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waiting | obl |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 waiting | punct |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 reared | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 reared | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 minute | det |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 minute | amod |
| 15 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reared | nsubj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dragon | det |
| 17 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 minute | appos |
| 18 | reared | rear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waiting | conj |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 reared | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 water | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 water | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 water | det |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reared | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 huge | punct |
| 25 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 water | amod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 horrible | cc |
| 27 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 huge | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 see | mark |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 horrible | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | present · progressive | a voice = voice | O prince | for you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | rear | past | the next minute | Dragon | the water | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the next minute not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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