The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 83

‘Stay here,’ said he, ‘and wait for me; I am going to explain things to my mother.’

Who acts: fire, I · What happens: stay, say, wait, go, explain · To what, where: things, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire, 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 Stay	punct
2	Stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Stay	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Stay	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Stay	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 he	punct
9	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	11 wait	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wait	cc
11	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 wait	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 going	nsubj
16	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 going	aux
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 explain	mark
19	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 going	xcomp
20	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 explain	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 mother	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mother	nmod:poss
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 explain	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stay	infinitive				here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	fire					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	wait	infinitive	fire not said here				for me	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	present · progressive	I					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here	things	my mother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Topic to mother=Recipient

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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