Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 95
You must not wait till it is finished.
Who acts: You · What happens: not wait, finish · To what, where: hand
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wait | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 wait | advmod |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 finished | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 finished | aux:pass |
| 8 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wait | advcl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wait | must | You | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | finish | present · passive | hand | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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