The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 16

‘Have a little patience, for there are some things I want to see more clearly.’

Who acts: things, I · What happens: have, be, want, see · To what, where: little patience, things

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, I), 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	_	2 Have	punct
2	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 patience	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 patience	amod
5	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 are	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 are	mark
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 are	expl
9	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Have	parataxis
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 things	det
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 are	nsubj
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 want	nsubj
13	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 things	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 want	xcomp
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 clearly	advmod
17	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	15 see	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present		a little patience			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient
2	does	present	some things		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	want	present	I	some things not said here			tree rules
4	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	some things not said here			clearly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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