The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 81
We must just sit and wait till the sun comes out again and dries it.’
Who acts: We, sun · What happens: sit, wait, come out, dry · To what, where: sun
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, sun), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sit | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sit | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 sit | advmod |
| 4 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wait | cc |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sit | conj |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 comes | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sun | det |
| 9 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 comes | nsubj |
| 10 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wait | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 comes | compound:prt |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 comes | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dries | cc |
| 14 | dries | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 comes | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dries | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sit | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | must | We | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wait | infinitive | We not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come out | present | the sun | again | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | dry | present | the sun not said here | sun | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result |
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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