The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 81

After waiting patiently for a little while, the old man fell on his knees, and said: “Good morning, holy father!”

Who acts: old man · What happens: wait, fall, say · To what, where: knees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 waiting	mark
2	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 fell	advcl
3	patiently	patiently	ADV	_	2 waiting	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 while	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 while	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 while	amod
7	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waiting	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 waiting	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	nsubj
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 knees	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 knees	nmod:poss
15	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fell	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fell	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 morning	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 morning	punct
21	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 morning	amod
22	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 father	punct
24	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 father	amod
25	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 morning	appos
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 father	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 father	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund	the old man not said here		while	patiently property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past	the old man	hermit's knees			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	the old man not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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