The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 37
Wait here for a moment, while I lay aside these dirty clothes.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: wait, lay · To what, where: dirty clothes
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Wait | advmod |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 lay | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 9 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| 10 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 9 lay | advmod |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 clothes | det |
| 12 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 clothes | amod |
| 13 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 9 lay | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | here | moment | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | lay | present | I | this dirty clothes | aside property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Result |
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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