The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 97
“Yes, yes, wait till to-morrow,” said the giant, “and then I myself will take you to her.”
Who acts: myself · What happens: wait, say, take · To what, where: giant, you, maid · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (myself), 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 | _ | 6 wait | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 wait | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 wait | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 yes | punct |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | till | till | ADP | _ | 10 morrow | case |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 morrow | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 to | punct |
| 10 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wait | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wait | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 wait | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 giant | det |
| 15 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 take | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 take | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 take | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 myself | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 myself | nsubj |
| 21 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 take | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 take | aux |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 take | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 take | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 take | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | infinitive | till morrow | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the giant | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | future | myself | you | maid | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to she=Destination |
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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