The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 137
Now she can wait no longer, for three years is the time that she agreed with her father to remain without marrying.’
Who acts: noise · What happens: wait, be, agree, remain, marry · To what, where: time
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 wait | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wait | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | aux |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | ADV | _ | 6 longer | advmod |
| 6 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 wait | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 time | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 years | case |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 time | obl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 time | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wait | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 agreed | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 agreed | nsubj |
| 16 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 time | advcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 father | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 agreed | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 remain | mark |
| 21 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 agreed | xcomp |
| 22 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 23 marrying | mark |
| 23 | marrying | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 remain | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | can | noise | now | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the time | year | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | past | noise | with noise's father | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S_INF»: agent=Agent with father=Co-Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | remain not said to happen | to-infinitive | noise not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | marry | gerund | noise not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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