The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 53
‘Wait there till I return,’ said the Musician, and went on his way.
Who acts: I · What happens: wait, 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 (I), 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Musician | det |
| 11 | Musician | musician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 way | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 way | nmod:poss |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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 Musician | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | past | musician'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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