The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 89
‘Wait a moment,’ answered the fish, ‘and I and my friends will soon drive them out of the water.’
Who acts: I · What happens: wait, answer, drive · To what, where: fish, friend, water · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 2 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answered | ccomp |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Wait | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fish | det |
| 9 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ‘ | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fish | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 drive | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 drive | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 friends | cc |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 friends | nmod:poss |
| 16 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 I | conj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 drive | aux |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 drive | advmod |
| 19 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answered | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 drive | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 water | det |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drive | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 drive | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 drive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | infinitive | moment | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the fish and ‘ | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | drive | future | I | friend | the water | soon property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme out water=Trajectory |
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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