The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 14
After waiting for a moment John knocked again, this time more loudly.
Who acts: John · What happens: wait, knock · To what, where: moment
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 waiting | mark |
| 2 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waiting | obl |
| 6 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 knocked | nsubj |
| 7 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moment | acl:relcl |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 knocked | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 waiting | punct |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waiting | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 loudly | advmod |
| 13 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 2 waiting | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | moment; time | loudly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | knock | past | John | a moment not said here | again | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent moment=Patient |
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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