The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 21
‘Very well,’ said he, ‘I’ll wait till we come to the next spring.’
Who acts: Brother, I, we · What happens: say, wait, come · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brother, I, 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wait | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 wait | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 wait | nsubj |
| 11 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 wait | aux |
| 12 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 come | mark |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 come | nsubj |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wait | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 spring | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 spring | det |
| 18 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 spring | amod |
| 19 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 wait | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Brother | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wait | future | I | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | present | we | spring | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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