The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 10
The old man, after waiting patiently for some time, sent his second son to seek the Golden Blackbird.
Who acts: old man · What happens: wait, send, seek · To what, where: second son, Golden Blackbird
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 waiting | punct |
| 5 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 waiting | mark |
| 6 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 man | acl:relcl |
| 7 | patiently | patiently | ADV | _ | 6 waiting | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waiting | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 son | amod |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 seek | mark |
| 17 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sent | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Blackbird | det |
| 19 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Blackbird | amod |
| 20 | Blackbird | Blackbird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 seek | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | the old man not said here | time | patiently property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | send | past | the old man | man's second son | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | the Golden Blackbird | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blackbird=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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