The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 51
Now get in, and do not stir till you hear a crow calling.'
Who acts: you, crow · What happens: get in, not stir, hear, call · To what, where: crow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, crow), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 get | advmod |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 get | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stir | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stir | cc |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 stir | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 stir | advmod |
| 8 | stir | stir | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 get | conj |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 hear | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 hear | nsubj |
| 11 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stir | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 crow | det |
| 13 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hear | obj |
| 14 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 hear | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 get | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in | imperative | you not said here | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not stir | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | hear | present | you | a crow | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call | gerund | a crow not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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