The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 10
‘Wait a minute,’ answered the eagle; ‘with the help of my friends I will soon drive them back to you.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: wait, answer, drive back, help · To what, where: eagle, friends, you
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 2 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 minute | det |
| 4 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Wait | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Wait | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 eagle | det |
| 9 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 drive | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 drive | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 help | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 help | det |
| 14 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drive | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 friends | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 friends | nmod:poss |
| 17 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 help | nmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 drive | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 drive | aux |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 drive | advmod |
| 21 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Wait | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 drive | obj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 drive | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 drive | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | 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 | minute | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | you not said here | the eagle | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent eagle=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | drive back | future | I | friends = friend | you | with the help of my friends; soon property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme to you=Trajectory | ||
| 4 | help | my friends | nom help «act 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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