The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 81
“He is only waiting for us to pass, to drop down on my back.”
Who acts: bear, us · What happens: wait, pass, drop down · To what, where: back
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, us), 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 | _ | 5 waiting | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 waiting | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 waiting | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 waiting | advmod |
| 5 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 pass | mark |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 pass | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 pass | mark |
| 9 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 waiting | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drop | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 drop | mark |
| 12 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pass | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 drop | compound:prt |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 back | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 back | nmod:poss |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drop | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 waiting | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | present · progressive | bear | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pass in a quote | to-infinitive | us | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | drop down in a quote | to-infinitive | us not said here | my back | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory |
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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