The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 72

Wait a bit, and I’ll bewitch you!’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: wait, bewitch · To what, where: bit, you

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 (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 bewitch	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bewitch	cc
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 bewitch	nsubj
7	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 bewitch	aux
8	bewitch	bewitch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 bewitch	obj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct
11	’	'	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	bewitch	future	I	you					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer

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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