The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 25

‘Let us wait a little and rest,’ cried the Welwa for the second time, ‘for I see you are as weary as I am.’

Who acts: us, I, you · What happens: let, wait, cry, see, be · To what, where: us, little, Welwa · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, I, you), 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 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 cried	ccomp
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wait	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rest	cc
8	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 little	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Welwa	det
13	Welwa	Welwa	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 time	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 time	det
16	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 time	amod
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Welwa	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 see	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
22	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cried	conj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 weary	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 weary	cop
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 weary	advmod
26	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 see	ccomp
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 I	case
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 weary	obl
29	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 weary	cop
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive		us			tree rules
2	wait	infinitive	us not said here	a little and rest			tree rules
3	cry speech: express	past		the Welwa	for the second time		tree rules
4	see	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	present	you			as I; weary property	tree rules

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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