The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 2

‘I’ll stand by the door and talk to him.’

Who acts: I · What happens: stand, talk · To what, where: him

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, 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 (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	_	4 stand	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 stand	nsubj
3	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stand	aux
4	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stand	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 talk	cc
9	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stand	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 talk	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stand	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 stand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	future	I					by the door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by door=Location
2	talk	infinitive	I not said here		him = he				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent

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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