The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 22
‘I have been waiting for you, as it is you who must deliver me.’
Who acts: I, serpent, you · What happens: wait, be, deliver · To what, where: you, me
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 (I, serpent, you), 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 | _ | 5 waiting | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 waiting | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 waiting | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 waiting | aux |
| 5 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 waiting | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 deliver | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 deliver | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 you | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 you | cop |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 deliver | nsubj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 deliver | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 deliver | aux |
| 15 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 waiting | advcl |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 deliver | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 waiting | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present · perfect · progressive | I | for you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | serpent | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | deliver | must | you | me | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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