The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 43

‘Now just wait whilst I fetch my scissors,’ said he, and left the bear growling away to his heart’s content, whilst he lay down in a corner and fell fast asleep.

Who acts: I, bear · What happens: wait, fetch, say, leave, growl away, lie down · To what, where: scissors, bear, content, corner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, bear), 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	_	4 wait	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 wait	advmod
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 wait	advmod
4	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
5	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	7 fetch	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 fetch	nsubj
7	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wait	advcl
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 scissors	nmod:poss
9	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fetch	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fetch	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 wait	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 left	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 left	cc
16	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bear	det
18	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 left	obj
19	growling	growl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 bear	acl
20	away	away	ADV	_	19 growling	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	25 content	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 heart	nmod:poss
23	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 content	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 heart	case
25	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 growling	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lay	punct
27	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	29 lay	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 lay	nsubj
29	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 left	advcl
30	down	down	ADV	_	29 lay	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 corner	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 corner	det
33	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lay	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 fell	cc
35	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 left	conj
36	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 fell	advmod
37	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 fell	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	infinitive					now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fetch	present	I	my scissors					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scissors=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	bear						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	leave	past	bear not said here	the bear					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme
5	growl away	gerund	the bear not said here		bear's heart's content			away property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to content=Recipient
6	lie down	past	bear			a corner		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
7	fall	past	bear not said here					asleep, fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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