The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 145

‘Wait a little longer,’ said the old woman to Halvor, ‘for the West Wind will presently be here, and he will know it, for he breathes gently or blows into every corner.’

Who acts: old woman, West Wind, wind · What happens: wait, say, be, know, breathe, blow · To what, where: cloud, corner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, West Wind, wind), 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 little	det
4	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 longer	advmod
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 Wait	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wait	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Wait	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Halvor	case
13	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 woman	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 here	punct
15	‘	‘	CCONJ	_	23 here	cc
16	for	for	ADP	_	23 here	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Wind	det
18	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Wind	compound
19	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 here	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 here	aux
21	presently	presently	ADV	_	23 here	advmod
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 here	cop
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 said	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 know	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 know	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 know	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 know	aux
28	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 know	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 breathes	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 breathes	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 breathes	nsubj
33	breathes	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 know	conj
34	gently	gently	ADV	_	33 breathes	advmod
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 blows	cc
36	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 breathes	conj
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 corner	case
38	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	39 corner	det
39	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 blows	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 know	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	infinitive				long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the old woman to Halvor				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	future	the West Wind			here, presently property	tree rules
4	know	future	wind	cloud			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	breathe	present	wind			gently property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	blow	present	wind not said here		every corner		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into corner=Product

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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