The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 41

Days went by, and the emperor waited and waited for the sons who never came, and could not sleep at night for wondering where they were and what had become of them.

Who acts: Days, emperor, sons · What happens: go by, wait, not come, not sleep, wonder, become · To what, where: Prince · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Days, emperor, sons), 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	Days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	2 went	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 waited	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 waited	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 emperor	det
7	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waited	nsubj
8	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 waited	cc
10	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 waited	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 sons	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sons	det
13	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 waited	obl
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 came	nsubj
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 came	advmod
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sons	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sleep	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sleep	cc
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 sleep	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 sleep	advmod
21	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 waited	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 night	case
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sleep	obl
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 wondering	mark
25	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 sleep	advcl
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 become	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 become	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 become	aux:pass
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 become	cc
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 become	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 become	aux
32	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 wondering	ccomp
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 become	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go by	past	Days				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wait	past	the emperor				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wait	past	the emperor not said here			for the sons	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not come	past	the sons				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not sleep	could	the emperor not said here		night		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wonder speech: ask	gerund	the emperor not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	become	past · perfect · passive		Prince		of heels = heel	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

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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