The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 85
The merchant did not reply, but went sorrowfully back to his house, where Maria sat waiting for him.
Who acts: merchant, Maria · What happens: not reply, go, sit, wait · To what, where: house
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 (merchant, Maria), 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 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reply | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reply | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 reply | advmod |
| 5 | reply | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reply | parataxis |
| 9 | sorrowfully | sorrowfully | ADV | _ | 10 back | advmod |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 house | nmod:poss |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sat | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 sat | advmod |
| 16 | Maria | Maria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sat | nsubj |
| 17 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 18 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 sat | xcomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 waiting | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reply speech: assert | past · do-support | the merchant | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | past | merchant's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | sit | past | Maria | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | wait | gerund | Maria not said here | for merchant | 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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