The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 20

Meanwhile the princess was in despair because the days slipped by, and the young man did not return, and she never rested until her father let her lead some troops against the Sultan.

Who acts: princess, young man, father · What happens: be, slip by, not return, not rest, let, lead · To what, where: despair, days, princess, troops

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, young man, father), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	6 despair	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 despair	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 despair	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 despair	case
6	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	9 days	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 days	det
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 despair	nmod
10	slipped	slip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 days	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	10 slipped	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 return	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 return	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 return	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 return	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 return	advmod
19	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 despair	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rested	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 rested	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 rested	nsubj
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 rested	advmod
24	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 return	conj
25	until	until	SCONJ	_	28 let	mark
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 father	nmod:poss
27	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 let	nsubj
28	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 rested	advcl
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 let	obj
30	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 let	xcomp
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 troops	det
32	troops	troops	NOUN	Number=Ptan	30 lead	obj
33	against	against	ADP	_	35 Sultan	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Sultan	det
35	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 lead	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 despair	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the princess		despair	day	meanwhile property	tree rules
2	slip by	participle		the days not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	not return	past · do-support	the young man					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not rest	past	princess					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	let	past	princess's father	princess				tree rules
6	lead	infinitive	princess not said here	some troops			against the Sultan	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent troops=Theme against sultan=Destination

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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