Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 66
"Wait for me here by the palings," said the crow, wagging his head as he flew away.
Who acts: crow, Kay · What happens: wait, say, wag, fly away · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crow, Kay), 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 | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 2 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Wait | obl |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Wait | advmod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 palings | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palings | det |
| 8 | palings | paling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Wait | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crow | det |
| 13 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wagging | punct |
| 15 | wagging | wag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wagging | obj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 flew | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 flew | nsubj |
| 20 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wagging | advcl |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 flew | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | infinitive | here | for the crow = crow; by the palings | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by paling=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the crow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wag | gerund | the crow not said here | Kay's head | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fly away | past | Kay | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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: «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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