The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 26

‘Well, I’ll wait a little longer till we reach the next stream, but then, whatever you may say, I really must drink, for I can bear this thirst no longer.’

Who acts: I, we, you · What happens: wait, reach, say, drink, bear · To what, where: next stream, whatever, thirst · 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 (I, we, you), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 wait	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 wait	nsubj
5	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wait	aux
6	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 little	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 longer	obl:unmarked
9	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 wait	advmod
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 reach	mark
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 reach	nsubj
12	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wait	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stream	det
14	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stream	amod
15	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reach	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 say	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 say	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 say	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 then	punct
20	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 say	obj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 say	nsubj
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 say	aux
23	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wait	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 drink	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 drink	nsubj
26	really	really	ADV	_	28 drink	advmod
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 drink	aux
28	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wait	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bear	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 bear	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 bear	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 bear	aux
33	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 drink	conj
34	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 thirst	det
35	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bear	obj
36	no	no	ADV	_	37 longer	advmod
37	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 bear	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wait	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wait	future	I			long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reach	present	we	the next stream			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent stream=Theme
3	say speech: assert	may	you	whatever	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent whatever=Topic
4	drink	must	I				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	bear	can	I	this thirst		long property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thirst=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 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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