The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 39
‘Just you wait where you are till I return,’ said the Musician, and he went on his way again.
Who acts: you, I, musician · What happens: wait, be, return, say, go · To what, where: Musician, 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 (you, I, musician), 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 | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 2 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 wait | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wait | nsubj |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 wait | advcl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 where | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 where | cop |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 return | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 return | nsubj |
| 10 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 return | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Musician | det |
| 15 | Musician | musician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 way | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 way | nmod:poss |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | you | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | return | present | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Musician | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go | past | musician | musician's way | again | 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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