Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 33
I have long been waiting for an opportunity to escape.’
Who acts: I · What happens: wait, escape
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | 5 waiting | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 waiting | aux |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 waiting | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 waiting | aux |
| 5 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 opportunity | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 opportunity | det |
| 8 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waiting | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 escape | mark |
| 10 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 opportunity | acl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 waiting | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present · perfect · progressive | I | for a opportunity; long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | escape | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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