The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 12
‘No, no, wait a little!’ screamed the father of the boy.
What happens: wait, scream · To what, where: little, father · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. 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 | _ | 6 wait | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 wait | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wait | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 wait | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 no | punct |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 screamed | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 little | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wait | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 wait | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 wait | punct |
| 11 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 father | det |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 screamed | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 boy | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boy | det |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 father | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | infinitive | a little | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | scream speech: express | past | the father of the boy | 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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