The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 71
So he decided to leave, without waiting so long as on the previous nights.
Who acts: remainder · What happens: decide, leave, wait
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (remainder), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 decided | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 decided | nsubj |
| 3 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 leave | mark |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 decided | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 waiting | punct |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 8 waiting | mark |
| 8 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 decided | advcl |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 long | advmod |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 waiting | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 nights | case |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 nights | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 nights | det |
| 14 | previous | previous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 nights | amod |
| 15 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 waiting | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | remainder | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | remainder not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | remainder not said here | night | long property | vn exist-47.1 «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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