More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 108

By-and-by, who should come along but the old king, lamenting and weeping, expecting to see nothing of his daughter but the prints of the place where she had been.

Who acts: daughter · What happens: come along, lament, weep, expect, see, be · To what, where: nothing, place

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg14241:1510): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	9 come	advmod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 and	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	1 By	fixed
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 by	punct
5	by	by	ADP	_	1 By	fixed
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	9 come	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	along	along	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
11	but	but	ADP	_	14 king	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 king	amod
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 who	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lamenting	punct
16	lamenting	lament	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 come	advcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 weeping	cc
18	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 lamenting	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 expecting	punct
20	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 lamenting	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 see	mark
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 expecting	xcomp
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 see	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 daughter	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 daughter	nmod:poss
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 nothing	nmod
27	but	but	ADP	_	29 prints	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 prints	det
29	prints	print	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 nothing	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 place	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 place	det
32	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 prints	nmod
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 been	advmod
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 been	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 been	aux
36	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 place	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come along	should			along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lament	gerund				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	weep	gerund				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	expect	gerund				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	see not said to happen	to-infinitive		nothing	but the prints of the place	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
6	be	past · perfect	daughter			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	print			the place		nom print «communication transitive»: of=patient

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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