The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 2
‘Wait,’ he said; ‘that does not please me; only let me find the right people, and the King shall yet give me all the treasures of his kingdom.’
Who acts: you, man, that, me, King · What happens: wait, say, not please, let, find, give · To what, where: me, right people, treasures, kingdom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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, man, that, me), 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 | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Wait | advcl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 please | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 please | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 please | nsubj |
| 10 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 please | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 please | advmod |
| 12 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Wait | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 please | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 let | advmod |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Wait | parataxis |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 people | det |
| 20 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 people | amod |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 find | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 give | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 give | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 King | det |
| 25 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 give | nsubj |
| 26 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 give | aux |
| 27 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 28 give | advmod |
| 28 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | conj |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 give | iobj |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 treasures | det:predet |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 treasures | det |
| 32 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 give | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 kingdom | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 35 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 treasures | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not please | present · do-support | that | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | find | infinitive | me not said here | the right people | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic | ||||
| 6 | give | shall | the King | all treasures of man's kingdom | me | yet | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient treasure=Theme | ||
| 7 | treasure | man's kingdom | nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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