The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 52

‘How long am I to stand waiting here?’

Who acts: I · What happens: stand, wait

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	7 stand	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 long	advmod
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 stand	advmod
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stand	aux
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 stand	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stand	mark
7	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stand	xcomp
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 waiting	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 stand	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 stand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	I					long property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	wait	gerund	I not said here			here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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