The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 116
So they waited for one month, for two, for six, for a year.
Who acts: guards · What happens: wait
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guards), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 waited | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 month | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 month | nummod |
| 6 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 two | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 two | case |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 waited | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 six | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 six | case |
| 12 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 waited | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 six | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 year | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 year | det |
| 16 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | guards = guard | month; year | for two; for six | 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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