The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 6
And at last they came home again, and the queen was waiting and watching in the palace, as she had never ceased to do since her son had rode away.
Who acts: mud, queen, son · What happens: come, wait, watch, not cease, do, have · To what, where: last, palace, queen
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mud, queen, son), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 came | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 waiting | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 waiting | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 queen | det |
| 11 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 waiting | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 waiting | aux |
| 13 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 came | advcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 watching | cc |
| 15 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 waiting | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 palace | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 palace | det |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 watching | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ceased | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 ceased | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 ceased | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 ceased | aux |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 ceased | advmod |
| 24 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 waiting | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 ceased | xcomp |
| 27 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 30 had | mark |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 son | nmod:poss |
| 29 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 do | advcl |
| 31 | rode | rode | ADV | _ | 32 away | advmod |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 30 had | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | mud | last | again | home property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | ||
| 2 | wait | past · progressive | the queen | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | watch | gerund | the queen not said here | the palace | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in palace=Location | ||||
| 4 | not cease | past · perfect · passive | queen | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | have | past | queen's son | away property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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