The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 42
He ate his breakfast, and waited until the birds should start, but they did not leave the place all day.
Who acts: wisdom, birds · What happens: eat, wait, start, not leave · To what, where: breakfast, place
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wisdom, birds), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ate | nsubj |
| 2 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 breakfast | nmod:poss |
| 4 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ate | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 waited | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 waited | cc |
| 7 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ate | conj |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 start | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 birds | det |
| 10 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 start | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 start | aux |
| 12 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 waited | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 leave | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 leave | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 leave | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 leave | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 leave | advmod |
| 18 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ate | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 place | det |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leave | obj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 day | det |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leave | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | wisdom | wisdom's breakfast | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wait | past | wisdom not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | start | should | the birds | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | not leave | past · do-support | birds = bird | the place | day | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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