The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 98
Wait a minute: I must first cut them off.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: wait, cut off · To what, where: nails
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, I), 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 minute | det |
| 3 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 cut | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 cut | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 cut | aux |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 cut | advmod |
| 8 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cut | obj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 cut | compound:prt |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | minute | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut off | must | I | nails = nail | first property | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector they=Eventuality |
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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