The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 38

‘Lie there,’ she said, ‘till your son comes to take you out again.’

Who acts: you, Fairy · What happens: lie, say, come, take out · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Fairy), 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 Lie	punct
2	Lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Lie	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Lie	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Lie	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Lie	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 comes	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 comes	punct
10	till	till	ADP	_	12 son	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 son	nmod:poss
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 comes	obl
13	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 take	mark
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 comes	xcomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 take	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	15 take	compound:prt
18	again	again	ADV	_	15 take	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Lie	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lie	imperative	you not said here		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Fairy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come	present				till your son	tree rules
4	take out	to-infinitive		you		again	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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