The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 122

‘Wait a little still,’ pleaded Renelde.

What happens: wait, plead · To what, where: little, Renelde · Speech: someone speaks here

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: 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 Wait	punct
2	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 pleaded	ccomp
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 little	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Wait	obl:unmarked
5	still	still	ADV	_	2 Wait	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wait	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Wait	punct
8	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Renelde	Renelde	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 pleaded	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 pleaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	infinitive		a little			still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	plead speech: request	past		Renelde					tree rules

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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