The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 68
‘Wait a little,’ answered she; ‘I must first bake this fish.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: wait, answer, bake · To what, where: little, wife, fish
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. 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), 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 | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 little | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Wait | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Wait | parataxis |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 answered | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 bake | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 bake | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 bake | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 bake | aux |
| 13 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 bake | advmod |
| 14 | bake | bake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Wait | conj |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 fish | det |
| 16 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bake | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | a little | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | wife | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | bake | must | I | this fish | first property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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 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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