The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 71

‘Wait a minute,’ he said; ‘you are walking as if for a wager, but you ought to have stayed to see your younger brother before you hurried off into the world.’

Who acts: boy, you · What happens: wait, say, walk, stay, see, hurry off · To what, where: younger brother, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, you), 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 said	ccomp
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 minute	det
4	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Wait	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wait	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Wait	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 walking	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 walking	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 walking	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 walking	aux
13	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp
14	as	as	ADP	_	13 walking	advmod
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 as	fixed
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 wager	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 wager	det
18	wager	wager	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walking	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stayed	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 stayed	cc
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 ought	nsubj
22	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 stayed	aux
23	to	to	PART	_	25 stayed	mark
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 stayed	aux
25	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 see	mark
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 stayed	advcl
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 brother	nmod:poss
29	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 brother	amod
30	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 see	obj
31	before	before	SCONJ	_	33 hurried	mark
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 hurried	nsubj
33	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 see	advcl
34	off	off	ADP	_	33 hurried	compound:prt
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 world	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 world	det
37	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hurried	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	infinitive				minute		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	boy					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	walk	present · progressive	you				for a wager	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stay	ought · perfect	boy not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive	boy not said here	your younger brother				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus
6	hurry off	past	you		the world			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into world=Destination

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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