--- title: ‘Wait a little longer,’ said the old woman to Halvor, ‘for the West… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Wait a little longer,’ said the old woman to Halvor, ‘for the West Wind will presently be here, and he will know it, for he breathes gently or blows into every corner.’ Who acts: old woman, West Wind, wind. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, West Wind, wind), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:6:145 # text = ‘Wait a little longer,’ said the old woman to Halvor, ‘for the West Wind will presently be here, and he will know it, for he breathes gently or blows into every corner.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 little little ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 5 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Halvor Halvor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 15 ‘ ‘ CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 16 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 Wind Wind PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 21 presently presently ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 cop _ _ 23 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 for for SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 breathes breathe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 34 gently gently ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 blows blow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 37 into into ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 39 det _ _ 39 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | infinitive | | | | | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old woman to Halvor | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **is** | future | the West Wind | | | | | here, presently *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **know** | future | wind | cloud | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 5 | **breathe** | present | wind | | | | | gently *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **blow** | present | wind *not said here* | | | every corner | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into corner=Product | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/6/144/) - next →: [sentence 146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/6/146/) - ↑ back to [Soria Moria Castle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/6/)