The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 3
She bade them wait next morning till Iwanich was asleep and then to hide themselves in the clouds, and to remain there till she called.
Who acts: witch, Iwanich · What happens: bade, wait, be, hide, remain, call · To what, where: beasts, clouds · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (witch, Iwanich), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bade | nsubj |
| 2 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bade | obj |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bade | xcomp |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 morning | amod |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wait | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 asleep | mark |
| 8 | Iwanich | Iwanich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asleep | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asleep | cop |
| 10 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wait | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hide | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 hide | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 hide | mark |
| 14 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wait | conj |
| 15 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 hide | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 clouds | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 clouds | det |
| 18 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hide | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 remain | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 remain | cc |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 remain | mark |
| 22 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | parataxis |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 remain | advmod |
| 24 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 26 called | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 called | nsubj |
| 26 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 remain | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | witch | beasts = beast | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wait | infinitive | witch not said here | morning | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Iwanich | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hide | to-infinitive | witch not said here | beasts = beast | the clouds | then | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in cloud=Location | ||
| 5 | remain | to-infinitive | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | call | past | witch | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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