Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 105
"All right," said the man; "wait here while I go and fetch the money."
Who acts: man · What happens: say, wait, go, fetch · To what, where: money · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | _ | 3 right | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 right | det |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 wait | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 wait | punct |
| 11 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 wait | advmod |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wait | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fetch | cc |
| 17 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 money | det |
| 19 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fetch | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wait | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wait in a quote | infinitive | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present | the man = man | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fetch in a quote | present | the man = man not said here | the money | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
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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