The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 17
I shall expect you this evening,’ and he went on his way.
Who acts: I, Countess · What happens: expect, go · To what, where: you, way
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 (I, Countess), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 expect | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 expect | aux |
| 3 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 expect | obj |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 evening | det |
| 6 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 expect | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 expect | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 expect | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 expect | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 way | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 way | nmod:poss |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | shall | I | you | evening | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | Countess | Countess's way | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location |
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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