The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 27
Her son was anxiously awaiting her outside the palace gates, dressed in the clothes that he wore every day.
Who acts: son · What happens: await, dress, wear · To what, where: princess, palace gates, clothes
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 awaiting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awaiting | aux |
| 4 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 5 awaiting | advmod |
| 5 | awaiting | await | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 awaiting | obj |
| 7 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 10 gates | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gates | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gates | compound |
| 10 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 awaiting | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dressed | punct |
| 12 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 gates | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 clothes | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 clothes | det |
| 15 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 dressed | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 wore | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wore | nsubj |
| 18 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 clothes | acl:relcl |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 day | det |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wore | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 awaiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | await | past · progressive | princess's son | princess | outside the palace gates; anxiously property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dress | participle | the palace gates not said here | the clothes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wear | past | son | the clothes | day | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent that=Source |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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