The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 83
‘I was waiting for you to help me do so,’ answered she.
Who acts: I, me · What happens: wait, help, do, answer · To what, where: me, river · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, me), 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 waiting | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 waiting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waiting | aux |
| 4 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 waiting | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 help | mark |
| 8 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 waiting | advcl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 help | obj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 help | xcomp |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 do | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 waiting | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 waiting | punct |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 answered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · progressive | I | for you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | I not said here | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | infinitive | me not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | river | tree rules |
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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