The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 61
So, after all, the years of waiting passed more quickly than the queen had dared to hope.
Who acts: queen · What happens: pass, dare, hope · To what, where: years
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 passed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 all | punct |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 years | det |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 years | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 years | det |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 passed | mark |
| 9 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 passed | aux:pass |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 quickly | advmod |
| 12 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 10 passed | advmod |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 dared | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 queen | det |
| 15 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dared | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 dared | aux |
| 17 | dared | dare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 passed | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 hope | mark |
| 19 | hope | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 dared | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | gerund · passive | all years | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | dare | past · perfect | the queen | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hope | to-infinitive | the queen not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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