The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 31

He flourishes a tree for a club and is wild with anger, for as he goes he cries, “You wait till I get hold of you!

Who acts: Foremost, You · What happens: flourish, be, go, cry, wait, get · To what, where: tree, hold, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Foremost, You), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flourishes	nsubj
2	flourishes	flourish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tree	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flourishes	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 club	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 club	det
7	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flourishes	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wild	cc
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wild	cop
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 flourishes	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 anger	case
12	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wild	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 goes	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 goes	mark
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 goes	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 goes	nsubj
17	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 flourishes	parataxis
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cries	nsubj
19	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 goes	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wait	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 wait	punct
22	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 wait	nsubj
23	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 goes	conj
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	26 get	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 get	nsubj
26	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 wait	advcl
27	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 get	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 hold	nmod
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 flourishes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	flourish	present	Foremost	a tree	for a club	tree rules
2	is	present	Foremost not said here		with anger; wild property	tree rules
3	go	present	Foremost			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cry speech: express	present	Foremost			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	wait in a quote	present	You			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	get in a quote	present	Foremost	hold of you		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
7	hold in a quote			you		nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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