The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 75
‘Wait for me here,’ he called out to the shark.
Who acts: heart · What happens: wait, call out · To what, where: shark · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart), 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 | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 2 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 called | ccomp |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Wait | obl |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Wait | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 called | nsubj |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 called | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 shark | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shark | det |
| 13 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | infinitive | here | for me | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | past | heart | the shark | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to shark=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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