The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 20

‘Wait there till I return,’ said the Fiddler, and he went on his way.

Who acts: I, Fiddler · What happens: wait, return, say, go · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Fiddler), 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	9 said	ccomp
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Wait	advmod
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	6 return	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 return	nsubj
6	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Wait	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 return	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Wait	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Fiddler	det
11	Fiddler	Fiddler	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 way	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 way	nmod:poss
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	wait	infinitive		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	return	present	I		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the Fiddler		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	past	fiddler	fiddler'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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