The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 158
Wait for me here, and in an hour I will return with carriages and horses fit for a princess.’
Who acts: you, I, carriages · What happens: wait, return, fit
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, carriages), 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Wait | obl |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Wait | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 return | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 return | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hour | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hour | det |
| 9 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 return | obl |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 return | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 return | aux |
| 12 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| 13 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 17 fit | mark |
| 14 | carriages | carriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fit | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 horses | cc |
| 16 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 carriages | conj |
| 17 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 return | advcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 princess | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 princess | det |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fit | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | here | for me | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | return | future | I | hour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fit | present | carriages and horses | for a princess | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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