The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 125
“Wait a bit,” he said; “I’ll stir up the fire for you.”
Who acts: you, half, King · What happens: wait, say, stir up · To what, where: bit, fire · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, half, King), 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 | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bit | det |
| 4 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Wait | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Wait | advcl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 stir | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 stir | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 stir | nsubj |
| 12 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 stir | aux |
| 13 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Wait | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 stir | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fire | det |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stir | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 stir | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | imperative | you not said here | a bit | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | half | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stir up in a quote | future | King | the fire | for you | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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