The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 23

“Good-morning,” he called to the boy as he galloped past, “I can’t wait to talk to you now.

Who acts: noise · What happens: call, gallop, not wait, talk · To what, where: boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise), 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 morning	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 called	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 called	nsubj
8	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 boy	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 called	obl
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 galloped	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 galloped	nsubj
14	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 called	advcl
15	past	past	ADV	_	14 galloped	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wait	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 wait	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 wait	nsubj
19	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 wait	aux
20	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 wait	advmod
21	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 galloped	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 talk	mark
23	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wait	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 talk	obl
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 talk	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	noise	the boy	morning		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to boy=Recipient
2	gallop	past	noise			past property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not wait in a quote	can	noise				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	talk in a quote	to-infinitive	noise not said here	the boy = boy	now		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-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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