The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 27
Stand at the door of the hen-house, and wait there for your horses.
Who acts: you · What happens: stand, wait · To what, where: door
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), 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 | Stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 door | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stand | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 7 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 hen | punct |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 door | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wait | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wait | cc |
| 12 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stand | conj |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 wait | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 horses | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 horses | nmod:poss |
| 16 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wait | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | imperative | you not said here | the door of the hen house | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | ||||
| 2 | wait | infinitive | you not said here | there | for your horses | vn exist-47.1 «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 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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