The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 70
Just stay here till I come again and tell you that it is finished.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: stay, come, tell, finish · To what, where: you, palace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 stay | advmod |
| 2 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 stay | advmod |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 come | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 come | nsubj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 stay | advcl |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tell | cc |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 stay | conj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | iobj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 finished | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 finished | aux:pass |
| 14 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 tell | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stay | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | imperative | you not said here | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | present | I | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | finish | present · passive | palace | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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