The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 8

'At least,' said they, after a moment's pause, 'we may expect them to fetch your wife to her new home?'

Who acts: eyes, we · What happens: say, expect, fetch · To what, where: eyes, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (eyes, we), 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 least	punct
2	At	at	ADP	_	3 least	case
3	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 least	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 least	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pause	punct
9	after	after	ADP	_	13 pause	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 moment	det
11	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pause	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 moment	case
13	pause	pause	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 expect	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 expect	punct
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 expect	nsubj
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 expect	aux
18	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 pause	acl:relcl
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 expect	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 fetch	mark
21	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 expect	xcomp
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wife	nmod:poss
23	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fetch	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 home	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 home	nmod:poss
26	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 home	amod
27	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fetch	obl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 pause	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 pause	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	eyes = eye			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	expect	may	we	eyes = eye		tree rules
3	fetch not said to happen	to-infinitive	eyes = eye not said here	your wife	to wife's new home	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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: «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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