The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 95

“You will have to wait till the spring, though,” she said; “I must make a great many slippers and dresses for myself, as I shall not have much time afterwards.”

Who acts: You, girl · What happens: have, wait, say, make, not have · To what, where: great many slippers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, girl), 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 have	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wait	mark
6	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
7	till	till	ADP	_	9 spring	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spring	det
9	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wait	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 though	punct
11	though	though	ADV	_	6 wait	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 make	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 make	aux
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 slippers	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 slippers	amod
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 slippers	amod
24	slippers	slipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 make	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 dresses	cc
26	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 slippers	conj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 myself	case
28	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 make	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 have	punct
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 have	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 have	nsubj
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 have	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 have	advmod
34	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 make	conj
35	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 time	amod
36	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 have	obj
37	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	34 have	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	future	You				tree rules
2	wait in a quote	to-infinitive	You not said here		spring	though property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	girl				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make in a quote	must	girl	a great many slippers and dresses		for girl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent slipper=Material for myself=Beneficiary
5	not have in a quote	shall	girl		time	afterwards property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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