The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 50
Several days went by, and the king and queen hardly ceased from entreating the aid of the giant, who by this time was getting weary of waiting.
Who acts: Several days, aid · What happens: go by, cease, entreat, get, wait · To what, where: king, aid
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Several days, aid), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 days | amod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 went | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ceased | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ceased | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ceased | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 queen | cc |
| 10 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 king | conj |
| 11 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 12 ceased | advmod |
| 12 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 14 entreating | mark |
| 14 | entreating | entreat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 ceased | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 aid | det |
| 16 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 entreating | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 giant | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 giant | det |
| 19 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 aid | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 getting | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 getting | nsubj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 time | det |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 getting | obl |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 getting | aux |
| 26 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 aid | conj |
| 27 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 getting | xcomp |
| 28 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 29 waiting | mark |
| 29 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 weary | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | Several days | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cease | participle · passive | the king and queen | hardly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | entreat | gerund | the aid of the giant | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aid=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | get | past · progressive | the aid of the giant | time | weary property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | wait | gerund | the aid of the giant not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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