The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 75
‘Creep inside this,’ said the master, ‘and wait while I go in and see my grandmother.
Who acts: Creep, I · What happens: say, wait, go in, see · To what, where: master, grandmother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (Creep, 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 | _ | 2 Creep | punct |
| 2 | Creep | creep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Creep | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Creep | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Creep | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 master | det |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ‘ | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 master | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wait | cc |
| 13 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 go | nsubj |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 wait | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADV | _ | 16 go | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 see | cc |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wait | conj |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Creep inside this | the master and ‘ | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent master=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wait | infinitive | Creep inside this not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go in | present | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | Creep inside this not said here | my grandmother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grandmother=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/9/75/