The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 11
‘You must wait,’ replied the dragon, ‘till I have finished my box, and then I will see if I can find one.’
Who acts: You, I · What happens: wait, reply, finish, see, find · To what, where: dragon, box, one
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. 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 | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wait | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | aux |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dragon | det |
| 9 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 finished | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 finished | punct |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 finished | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 finished | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 finished | aux |
| 15 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 wait | advcl |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 box | nmod:poss |
| 17 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 finished | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 see | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 see | advmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 see | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 see | aux |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wait | conj |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 find | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 find | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 find | aux |
| 27 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 see | advcl |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 find | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | must | You | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the dragon | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dragon=Topic | |||||
| 3 | finish | present · perfect | I | my box | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector box=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | see | future | I | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | find a condition, not said to happen | can | I | one | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
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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