The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 54

‘All right,’ said the fox, ‘only don’t be in such a hurry; let’s wait till night, when the little birds have gone to roost, then I’ll climb up and catch them all for you.’

Who acts: ’s, little birds, I · What happens: say, not be, let, wait, go, roost · To what, where: fox, hurry, ’s, birds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (’s, little birds, I), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 said	ccomp
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 All	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 All	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 All	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fox	det
8	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hurry	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 hurry	punct
11	only	only	ADV	_	18 hurry	advmod
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 hurry	aux
13	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 hurry	advmod
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 hurry	cop
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 hurry	case
16	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	18 hurry	det:predet
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hurry	det
18	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
20	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
21	’s	we	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 let	obj
22	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 let	xcomp
23	till	till	ADP	_	24 night	case
24	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wait	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 gone	punct
26	when	when	SCONJ	_	31 gone	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 birds	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 birds	amod
29	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 gone	nsubj
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 gone	aux
31	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 let	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 roost	mark
33	roost	roost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 gone	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 climb	punct
35	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 climb	advmod
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 climb	nsubj
37	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 climb	aux
38	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 let	conj
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 climb	compound:prt
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 catch	cc
41	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 climb	conj
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 catch	obj
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 them	nmod:unmarked
44	for	for	ADP	_	45 you	case
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 catch	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the fox				tree rules
2	not is	infinitive · do-support			such hurry			tree rules
3	let	infinitive		’s				tree rules
4	wait	infinitive	’s not said here			night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go	present · perfect	the little birds					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	roost	to-infinitive	the little birds not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	climb up	future	I			then		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	catch	present	I not said here	birds = bird			for you	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Theme for you=Beneficiary

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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