The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 119
After waiting a few minutes, she began her task over again, and at the end the buffalo stood on his feet as before.
Who acts: wife, buffalo · What happens: wait, begin, stand, task · To what, where: task, end
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, buffalo), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 waiting | mark |
| 2 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 began | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 minutes | det |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 minutes | amod |
| 5 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 waiting | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 waiting | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 task | nmod:poss |
| 10 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 began | obj |
| 11 | over | over | ADV | _ | 12 again | advmod |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 began | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stood | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stood | cc |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 end | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 end | det |
| 17 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stood | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 buffalo | det |
| 19 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stood | nsubj |
| 20 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 began | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 feet | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 feet | nmod:poss |
| 23 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 stood | obl |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 before | case |
| 25 | before | before | ADV | _ | 20 stood | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | wife not said here | minute | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | wife | wife's task | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | stand | past | the buffalo | at the end | on buffalo's feet | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location | |||
| 4 | task | wife | nom task «act 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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