The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 37
'Wait and you'll see, mother,' answered her husband.
Who acts: you · What happens: wait, see, answer · To what, where: mother, husband
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 see | cc |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 5 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Wait | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mother | punct |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Wait | advcl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 husband | nmod:poss |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | 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 | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | future | you | mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | you not said here | cow's husband | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent husband=Eventuality |
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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