The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 9
Stay there till I want you,' said he; and he returned to the hut.
Who acts: you, I, country · What happens: stay, want, say, return · To what, where: you · 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, I, country), 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 | Stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Stay | advmod |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 5 want | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 want | nsubj |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stay | advcl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 want | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stay | parataxis |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 returned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 returned | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 returned | nsubj |
| 14 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stay | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 hut | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hut | det |
| 17 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 returned | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | imperative | you not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | want | present | I | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | country | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | return | past | country | to the hut result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hut=Result |
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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