The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 28

However, he only waited till he was out of sight of the cave before he stooped down and whispered: “Little basket, little basket, do your duty.”

Who acts: Father, Little basket · What happens: wait, be, stoop down, whisper, do · To what, where: sight, duty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, Little basket), 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	However	however	ADV	_	5 waited	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 waited	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 waited	advmod
5	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 sight	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sight	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sight	cop
9	out	out	ADP	_	11 sight	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 sight	case
11	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waited	advcl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 cave	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cave	det
14	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sight	nmod
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 stooped	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stooped	nsubj
17	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 waited	advcl
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 stooped	compound:prt
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 whispered	cc
20	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stooped	conj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 basket	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 basket	punct
23	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 basket	amod
24	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 do	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 basket	punct
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 basket	amod
27	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 basket	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 do	punct
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 waited	advcl
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 duty	nmod:poss
31	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 do	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 waited	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	past	Father			however property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Father		sight	of the cave	tree rules
3	stoop down	past	Father				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	whisper speech: assert	past	Father not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	do in a quote	infinitive	Little basket and little basket	your duty			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality

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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