The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 102
The moments seemed long while she and Death stood gazing up into the air, waiting to know whose prize the prince would be.
Who acts: moments, queen, gazing · What happens: seem, stand, gaze up, wait, know, be · To what, where: prize
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moments, queen, gazing), 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 moments | det |
| 2 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 seemed | advmod |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 stood | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Death | cc |
| 8 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 she | conj |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seemed | advcl |
| 10 | gazing | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 be | csubj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 gazing | compound:prt |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 air | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gazing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 waiting | punct |
| 16 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 gazing | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 know | mark |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 waiting | xcomp |
| 19 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 20 prize | nmod:poss |
| 20 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 know | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 prince | det |
| 22 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 know | obj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 be | aux |
| 24 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 stood | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the moments | long property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | queen | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | gaze up | gerund | into the air | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into air=Theme | |||||
| 4 | wait | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | know | to-infinitive | prize | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | be | would | gazing | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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