The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 85
‘Just wait a little,’ said Hans; ‘I am going the same way.’
Who acts: Hans, I · What happens: wait, say, go · To what, where: little, same way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, 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 | _ | 3 wait | punct |
| 2 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 wait | advmod |
| 3 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 little | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wait | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wait | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 wait | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 going | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 going | aux |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 way | amod |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 going | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | infinitive | a little | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Hans | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | present · progressive | I | the same way | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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