Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 21
Laili consented to wait, although she was very impatient.
Who acts: Laili · What happens: consent, wait, be
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Laili), 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 | Laili | Laili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 consented | nsubj |
| 2 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 wait | mark |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 consented | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 impatient | punct |
| 6 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 10 impatient | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 impatient | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 impatient | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 impatient | advmod |
| 10 | impatient | impatient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wait | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | Laili | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wait | to-infinitive | Laili not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Laili | impatient property | tree rules |
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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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