The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 89
I’ll just rest for a few minutes; it will be some little time yet before the King has got to dessert.’
Who acts: I, runner, King · What happens: rest, be, get · To what, where: little time
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, runner, King), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 rest | nsubj |
| 2 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 rest | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 rest | advmod |
| 4 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 minutes | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 minutes | det |
| 7 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 minutes | amod |
| 8 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rest | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 time | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 time | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 time | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 time | cop |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 time | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rest | obl |
| 16 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 time | advmod |
| 17 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 got | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 got | nsubj |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 got | aux |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 rest | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 dessert | case |
| 23 | dessert | dessert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 got | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rest | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 rest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | future | I | minute | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | future | runner | some little time | yet | tree rules | |||
| 3 | get | present · perfect | the King | to dessert result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to dessert=Result |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/35/89/