More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 11

They waited and they waited, but still he didn't come, till at last he came rushing in, calling out, "Who's Tommy Tildrum?" in such a wild way that both his wife and his cat stared at him to know what was the matter.

Who acts: Cats, prince, wife · What happens: wait, not come, come, rush in, call out, be · To what, where: wild way, Tommy Tildrum, matter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cats, prince, wife), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waited	nsubj
2	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 waited	cc
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 waited	nsubj
5	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waited	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 come	cc
8	still	still	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 come	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 come	advmod
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 waited	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 last	punct
14	till	till	ADP	_	16 last	case
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 last	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 waited	conj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 last	acl:relcl
19	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 came	xcomp
20	in	in	ADV	_	19 rushing	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 calling	punct
22	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 waited	advcl
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 calling	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Tildrum	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 Tildrum	punct
26	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 Tildrum	nsubj
27	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 Tildrum	cop
28	Tommy	Tommy	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Tildrum	compound
29	Tildrum	Tildrum	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 calling	xcomp
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 Tildrum	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 Tildrum	punct
32	in	in	ADP	_	36 way	case
33	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	36 way	det:predet
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 way	det
35	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 way	amod
36	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 calling	obl
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 stared	obj
38	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	40 wife	det
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 wife	nmod:poss
40	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 stared	nsubj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 cat	cc
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 cat	nmod:poss
43	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 wife	conj
44	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 way	acl:relcl
45	at	at	ADP	_	46 him	case
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 stared	obl
47	to	to	PART	_	48 know	mark
48	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 stared	advcl
49	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	52 matter	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 matter	cop
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 matter	det
52	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 know	ccomp
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	Cats = cat					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wait	past	Cats = cat					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not come	past · do-support	prince			still		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	prince					tree rules
5	rush in	gerund	prince not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	call out speech: ask	gerund	Cats = cat not said here		such wild way			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a in a quote	present		Tommy Tildrum				tree rules
8	stare	past	prince's wife and prince's cat	such wild way			at prince	tree rules
9	know	to-infinitive	prince's wife and prince's cat not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
10	is a	past		the matter				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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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