The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 45
'Wait for a minute, while I fetch some sacks to carry away my share.'
Who acts: you, I, my · What happens: wait, fetch, carry away, share · To what, where: sacks, share
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, my), 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 | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 minute | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 minute | det |
| 5 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Wait | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fetch | punct |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 fetch | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 fetch | nsubj |
| 9 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Wait | advcl |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 sacks | det |
| 11 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fetch | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 carry | mark |
| 13 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fetch | advcl |
| 14 | away | away | ADP | _ | 13 carry | compound:prt |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 share | nmod:poss |
| 16 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carry | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | minute | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fetch | present | I | some sacks | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry away | to-infinitive | I not said here | my share | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Theme | ||||
| 4 | share | my | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=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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