The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 64
The little dwarf paused, quite worn out, and the youth did not wait long to do his bidding.
Who acts: little dwarf, youth · What happens: pause, wear out, not wait, do, bid · To what, where: bidding
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little dwarf, youth), 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 dwarf | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dwarf | amod |
| 3 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paused | nsubj |
| 4 | paused | pause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 worn | punct |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 worn | advmod |
| 7 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 paused | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 worn | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wait | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wait | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 youth | det |
| 12 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wait | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wait | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 wait | advmod |
| 15 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 worn | conj |
| 16 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 wait | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wait | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 20 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 do | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | participle | the little dwarf | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wear out | participle | the little dwarf not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not wait | past · do-support | the youth | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | the youth not said here | youth's bidding | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | bid | youth | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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