The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 60
We only waited to see that you did not forget your sister in your prosperity.’
Who acts: We, you · What happens: wait, see, not forget · To what, where: sister, prosperity
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 waited | advmod |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 waited | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 forget | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 forget | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 forget | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 forget | advmod |
| 10 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | advcl |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sister | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forget | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 prosperity | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 prosperity | nmod:poss |
| 15 | prosperity | prosperity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forget | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | We | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | We not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not forget | past · do-support | you | your sister | your prosperity | tree rules |
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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