The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 21
Wait for me!' he cried; not even knowing he was speaking.
Who acts: you, prince · What happens: wait, cry, not know, speak · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, prince), 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Wait | obl |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 knowing | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 knowing | advmod |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 knowing | advmod |
| 11 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 cried | advcl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 speaking | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 speaking | aux |
| 14 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 knowing | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | for me | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | prince | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not know | gerund | prince not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past · progressive | prince | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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