The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 60

But the lady in waiting, who had been prepared for something of the sort, advanced, holding in her hand the letters which the king and queen had entrusted to her.

Who acts: lady · What happens: wait, prepare, hold, entrust · To what, where: lady, letters, hand, king, Cerisette

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 prepared	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lady	det
3	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 prepared	nsubj:pass
4	in	in	SCONJ	_	5 waiting	mark
5	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 lady	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 prepared	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 prepared	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 prepared	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 prepared	aux:pass
10	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 something	case
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 prepared	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 sort	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sort	det
15	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 something	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 advanced	punct
17	advanced	advanced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 something	amod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 holding	punct
19	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 prepared	advcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 hand	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hand	nmod:poss
22	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 holding	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 letters	det
24	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 holding	obj
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 entrusted	obj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 king	det
27	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 entrusted	nsubj:pass
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 queen	cc
29	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 king	conj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 entrusted	aux
31	entrusted	entrust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 letters	acl:relcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 her	case
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 entrusted	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund	the lady not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	prepare	past · perfect · passive		the lady			for something	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for something=Beneficiary
3	hold	gerund		the letters		Cerisette's hand		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent letter=Theme in hand=Location
4	entrust	past · perfect · passive		the king and queen	Cerisette			tree rules

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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