The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 94

The queen repented bitterly her promise to the girl, but it was too late to recall it; for Ilonka had already entered the king’s room, where he lay anxiously waiting for something, he knew not what.

Who acts: queen, promise, king · What happens: repent, be, recall, enter, lie, wait · To what, where: promise, Ilonka

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, promise, king), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 repented	nsubj
3	repented	repent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	3 repented	advmod
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 promise	nmod:poss
6	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 repented	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 girl	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girl	det
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 repented	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 late	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 late	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 late	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 late	cop
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 late	advmod
15	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 repented	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 recall	mark
17	recall	recall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 late	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 recall	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 entered	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 entered	mark
21	Ilonka	Ilonka	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 entered	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 entered	aux
23	already	already	ADV	_	24 entered	advmod
24	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 repented	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 king	det
26	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 room	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 king	case
28	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 entered	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lay	punct
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 lay	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 lay	nsubj
32	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 entered	advcl
33	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	_	32 lay	advmod
34	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 lay	advcl
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 something	case
36	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 waiting	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 knew	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 knew	nsubj
39	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 repented	parataxis
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 knew	advmod
41	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 knew	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 repented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	repent	past	the queen	queen's promise	to the girl; bitterly property	tree rules
2	is	past	promise		late property	tree rules
3	recall	to-infinitive	promise not said here	promise		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	enter	past · perfect · passive		Ilonka		tree rules
5	lie	past	king		anxiously property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wait	gerund	king not said here		for something	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not know	past	king			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
8	promise		queen			nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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