The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 37
“Wait a bit,” he said, “till the moon is up, and then we’ll find our way sure enough.”
Who acts: Grettel, moon, we · What happens: wait, say, be, find · To what, where: bit, way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grettel, moon, we), 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 | 8 said | ccomp |
| 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 | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 up | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 up | punct |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 up | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 moon | det |
| 13 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 up | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 up | cop |
| 15 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 find | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 find | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 find | advmod |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 find | nsubj |
| 20 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 find | aux |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 way | nmod:poss |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 find | obj |
| 24 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 find | xcomp |
| 25 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 24 sure | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | infinitive | a bit | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Grettel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the moon | up property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find in a quote | future | we | our way | then | sure property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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 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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