The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 44
But Geirald did not even wait to see if he was wounded; he went straight to the wall where the royal banner waved and claimed the reward which was now his.
Who acts: Geirald, royal banner, reward · What happens: not wait, see, be, go, wave, claim · To what, where: wall, reward, Geirald
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Geirald, royal banner, reward), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 wait | cc |
| 2 | Geirald | Geirald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wait | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wait | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 wait | advmod |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 wait | advmod |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wait | advcl |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 wounded | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wounded | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wounded | cop |
| 12 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 see | ccomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wait | parataxis |
| 16 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 19 wall | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 wall | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wall | det |
| 19 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 waved | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 banner | det |
| 22 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 banner | amod |
| 23 | banner | banner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 waved | nsubj |
| 24 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wall | acl:relcl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 claimed | cc |
| 26 | claimed | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 reward | det |
| 28 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 claimed | obj |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 his | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 his | cop |
| 31 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 his | advmod |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 reward | acl:relcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wait | past · do-support | Geirald | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Geirald not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | Geirald | wounded property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | past | Geirald | the wall | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wall=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | wave | past | the royal banner | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | claim speech: other | past | Geirald not said here | the reward | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent reward=Topic | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | the reward | Geirald | now | tree rules |
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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