The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 54
‘We will wait,’ said the first bird, ‘and see how they get on together.’
Who acts: We, first bird, birds · What happens: wait, say, see, get · 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 (We, first bird, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wait | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | aux |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bird | det |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 bird | amod |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ‘ | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bird | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 see | cc |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wait | conj |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 get | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 get | nsubj |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | ccomp |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 together | case |
| 19 | together | together | ADV | _ | 17 get | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | future | We | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the first bird and ‘ | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | We not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | get | present | birds = bird | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on together=Source |
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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