The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 70
For some minutes no one could attend to anybody but the prince; but as soon as he revived the lady in waiting made herself heard.
Who acts: one, prince · What happens: attend, revive, make, hear · To what, where: lady
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 (one, prince), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 minutes | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 minutes | det |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 attend | obl |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attend | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 attend | aux |
| 7 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 anybody | case |
| 9 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 attend | obl |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 prince | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prince | det |
| 12 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 anybody | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 revived | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 revived | cc |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 soon | advmod |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 revived | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 revived | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 revived | nsubj |
| 19 | revived | revive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 attend | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lady | det |
| 21 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 revived | obj |
| 22 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 24 made | mark |
| 23 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 made | aux:pass |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 revived | advcl |
| 25 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 made | obj |
| 26 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 made | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 attend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attend | could | no one | minute | to anybody | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to anybody=Theme | |||
| 2 | revive | past | prince | the lady | soon property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lady=Patient | |||
| 3 | make | gerund · passive | prince not said here | lady | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: herself=Product | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | prince not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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