The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 50

‘The sun is not down yet,’ said the first bird; ‘we must wait yet awhile till the moon rises and the maiden comes to the spring.

Who acts: sun, we, moon, maiden · What happens: not be, say, wait, rise, come · To what, where: first bird · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sun, we, moon, maiden), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 yet	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 yet	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 yet	advmod
6	down	down	ADV	_	7 yet	advmod
7	yet	yet	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 yet	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 yet	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bird	det
12	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 bird	amod
13	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 wait	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 wait	punct
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 wait	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 wait	aux
18	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	conj
19	yet	yet	ADV	_	20 awhile	advmod
20	awhile	awhile	ADV	_	18 wait	advmod
21	till	till	SCONJ	_	24 rises	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 moon	det
23	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rises	nsubj
24	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 wait	advcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 comes	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 maiden	det
27	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 comes	nsubj
28	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 rises	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 spring	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 spring	det
31	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 comes	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	the sun			down, yet property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the first bird			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bird=Topic
3	wait	must	we			awhile property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	rise	present	the moon				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	come	present	the maiden		spring		vn escape-51.1-1 «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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