The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 116
‘Wait for me by the railings,’ said the crow, and he nodded his head and flew away.
Who acts: Kay · What happens: wait, say, nod, fly away · To what, where: crow, head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay), 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 | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Wait | obl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 railings | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 railings | det |
| 7 | railings | railing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Wait | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 crow | det |
| 12 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 nodded | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 nodded | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 nodded | nsubj |
| 16 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nodded | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 flew | cc |
| 20 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 nodded | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 flew | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | infinitive | for me; by the railings | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by railing=Location | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the crow | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | nod | past | Kay | Kay's head | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fly away | past | Kay not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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