The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 85

The parrot waited a little, until he was really awake, and then she said boldly that she had been sent to take away the crown, which was not his any longer, now his daughter the queen was dead.

Who acts: parrot, Monkey, crown · What happens: wait, be, say, send, take away, not be · To what, where: little, Monkey, crown · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parrot, Monkey, crown), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 parrot	det
2	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waited	nsubj
3	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 waited	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 awake	punct
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 awake	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 awake	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 awake	cop
10	really	really	ADV	_	11 awake	advmod
11	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 waited	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 said	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waited	conj
17	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 said	advmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 sent	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sent	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sent	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 sent	aux:pass
22	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 said	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 take	mark
24	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 sent	advcl
25	away	away	ADP	_	24 take	compound:prt
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 crown	det
27	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 dead	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 dead	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 dead	cop
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 dead	advmod
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 dead	nmod:poss
33	any	any	ADV	_	34 longer	advmod
34	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	42 dead	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 dead	punct
36	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 dead	advmod
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 daughter	nmod:poss
38	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 dead	nsubj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 queen	det
40	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 dead	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 dead	cop
42	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 crown	acl:relcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	the parrot	a little			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Parrot			awake property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Monkey		then	boldly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	send	past · perfect · passive		Monkey			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	take away	to-infinitive		the crown			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme
6	not is	past	the crown		now	dead, long property	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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