Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 2

"Only wait till my time comes," he said; "I shall do more than grow roses, bear nuts, or give milk, like the hazel-bush, the cows and the sheep."

Who acts: you, time, shell, I · What happens: wait, come, say, do, grow, bear · To what, where: more, roses, nuts, milk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, time, shell, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 wait	punct
2	Only	only	ADV	_	3 wait	advmod
3	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 comes	mark
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 time	nmod:poss
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 comes	nsubj
7	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wait	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 comes	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 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	3 wait	advcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wait	parataxis
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 do	obj
18	than	than	SCONJ	_	19 grow	mark
19	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 more	advcl
20	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 grow	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bear	punct
22	bear	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 do	conj
23	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 bear	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 give	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 give	cc
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wait	parataxis
27	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bush	punct
29	like	like	ADP	_	33 bush	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bush	det
31	hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bush	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 hazel	punct
33	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 cows	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 cows	det
36	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 bush	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 sheep	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sheep	det
39	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bush	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wait	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait in a quote	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come in a quote	present	my time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	shell		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	do in a quote	shall	I	more	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality
5	grow in a quote	infinitive	I not said here	roses	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rose=Theme
6	bear in a quote	present	I not said here	nuts	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient
7	give in a quote	infinitive		milk	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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