The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 59
Wait a bit, and I’ll give you some nice soup, which you’ll remember as long as you live.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: wait, give, remember, live · To what, where: bit, nice soup, you
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 (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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bit | det |
| 3 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 give | cc |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 give | nsubj |
| 7 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | aux |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | conj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 soup | det |
| 11 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 soup | amod |
| 12 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 remember | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 remember | obj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 remember | nsubj |
| 16 | ’ll | 'll | ADV | _ | 17 remember | advmod |
| 17 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 soup | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 long | advmod |
| 19 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 remember | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 live | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 live | nsubj |
| 22 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 long | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | 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 | a bit | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | future | I | some nice soup | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient soup=Theme | |||
| 3 | remember | present | you | some nice soup | 'll, long property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 4 | live | present | you | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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