The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 3
I have been watching for you a long time, and my trap was ready for you from the beginning.
Who acts: I, trap · What happens: watch, be · To what, where: beginning
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, trap), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 watching | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 watching | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 watching | aux |
| 4 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 watching | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 watching | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ready | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ready | cc |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 trap | nmod:poss |
| 13 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ready | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ready | cop |
| 15 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 watching | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 ready | obl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 beginning | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 beginning | det |
| 20 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ready | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 watching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | present · perfect · progressive | I | time | for you | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for you=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | my trap | from the beginning | for you; ready property | tree rules |
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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