The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 90
'Then be quick and don't waste my time, for I can't wait much longer.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, not waste, not wait
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. 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), 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 | _ | 4 quick | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 quick | advmod |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 quick | cop |
| 4 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 waste | cc |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 waste | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 waste | advmod |
| 8 | waste | waste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 quick | conj |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 time | nmod:poss |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 waste | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wait | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 wait | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 wait | nsubj |
| 14 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 wait | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 wait | advmod |
| 16 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 waste | conj |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 longer | advmod |
| 18 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 wait | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | then | quick property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not waste | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | time | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not wait | can | I | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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