The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 25

‘Sunbeam, my darling—only wait for me a moment.’

What happens: wait

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 Sunbeam	punct
2	Sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 darling	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 darling	nmod:poss
5	darling	darling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Sunbeam	conj
6	—	-	PUNCT	_	8 wait	punct
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 wait	advmod
8	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Sunbeam	parataxis
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 wait	obl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 moment	det
12	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wait	obl:unmarked
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Sunbeam	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Sunbeam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	infinitive					moment	for me	vn exist-47.1 «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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