The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 132

Ciccu had to wait a little before he gathered the last figs on the tree, and these were not nearly so good as the first set.

Who acts: Ciccu, these · What happens: have, wait, gather, not be · To what, where: last figs, tree

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ciccu, these), 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	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 wait	mark
4	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 wait	advmod
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 gathered	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gathered	nsubj
9	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wait	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 figs	det
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 figs	amod
12	figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gathered	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 tree	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tree	det
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gathered	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 good	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 good	cc
18	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 good	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 good	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 good	advmod
21	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	23 good	advmod
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 good	advmod
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	parataxis
24	as	as	ADP	_	27 set	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 set	det
26	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 set	amod
27	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 good	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Ciccu				tree rules
2	wait	to-infinitive	Ciccu not said here			little property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	gather	past	Ciccu	the last figs	the tree		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fig=Theme
4	not is	past	these			as the first set; good, nearly 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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