The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 55

Here a splendid barge was waiting for them, and from it they watched all sorts of races and feats of swimming and diving.

Who acts: splendid barge, fathers · What happens: wait, watch, sort · To what, where: sorts, barge, races

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (splendid barge, fathers), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 waiting	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 barge	det
3	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 barge	amod
4	barge	barge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 waiting	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 waiting	aux
6	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 waiting	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 watched	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 watched	cc
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 watched	obl
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 watched	nsubj
14	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 waiting	parataxis
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 sorts	det
16	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 watched	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 races	case
18	races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sorts	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 feats	cc
20	feats	feat	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 races	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 swimming	case
22	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 feats	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 diving	cc
24	diving	diving	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 swimming	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 waiting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	past · progressive	a splendid barge		here	for fathers = father	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	watch	past	fathers = father	all sorts of races and feats of swimming and diving	barge		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Theme
3	sort			races and feats of swimming and diving			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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