The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 149

The daughters of your uncle have waited for you in vain,” and she bade us follow her to the house, saying, “Now there need be no more delay; you can marry your cousins as soon as you please, and take them with you to your own home.”

Who acts: daughters, ogress, you · What happens: wait, bade, follow, say, need, be · To what, where: vain, us, ogress, house, more delay, cousins · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters, ogress, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 daughters	det
2	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 waited	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 uncle	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 uncle	nmod:poss
5	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 daughters	nmod
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 waited	aux
7	waited	wait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 waited	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 vain	case
11	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 waited	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 waited	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 waited	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bade	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bade	nsubj
16	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 waited	conj
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 bade	obj
18	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 bade	xcomp
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 follow	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 house	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 house	det
22	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 follow	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 saying	punct
24	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 bade	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 need	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 need	punct
27	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 need	advmod
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 need	expl
29	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 saying	ccomp
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 delay	cop
31	no	no	ADV	_	32 more	advmod
32	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 delay	amod
33	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 need	obj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 marry	punct
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 marry	nsubj
36	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 marry	aux
37	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 waited	conj
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 cousins	nmod:poss
39	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 marry	obj
40	as	as	ADV	_	41 soon	advmod
41	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 marry	advmod
42	as	as	ADP	_	43 you	case
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 soon	obl
44	please	please	INTJ	_	37 marry	discourse
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 take	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 take	cc
47	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 marry	conj
48	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 take	obj
49	with	with	ADP	_	50 you	case
50	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 take	obl
51	to	to	ADP	_	54 home	case
52	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 home	nmod:poss
53	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 home	amod
54	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 take	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 waited	punct
56	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present · perfect	the daughters of your uncle		vain		for you	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in vain=Location
2	bade in a quote	past	ogress	us				tree rules
3	follow in a quote	infinitive	ogress not said here	ogress	the house			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme to house=Trajectory
4	say speech: assert in a quote	gerund	ogress not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	need	present			there	now		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	is a	infinitive		more delay				tree rules
7	marry	can	you	your cousins			soon property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cousin=Patient
8	take	infinitive	you not said here	cousins = cousin	your own home		with you	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to home=Destination

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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