The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 83
‘We shall have long to wait, that is quite clear,’ replied Houarn, turning away to his work.
Who acts: We, that, Houarn · What happens: have, wait, be, reply, turn away, work · To what, where: work · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, that, Houarn), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 have | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 wait | mark |
| 7 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 long | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 clear | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 clear | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 clear | cop |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 clear | advmod |
| 12 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 long | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Houarn | Houarn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 turning | punct |
| 18 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 replied | advcl |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 turning | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 work | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 work | nmod:poss |
| 22 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 turning | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | We | long property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wait | to-infinitive | We not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | that | clear property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | Houarn | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | turn away | gerund | Houarn not said here | Houarn's work | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to work=Destination | |||
| 6 | work | Houarn | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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