The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 22
'In that chest is the crown that has waited for you for many years,' he said, 'and at last you have come for it.'
Who acts: crown, king, you · What happens: be, wait, say, come · To what, where: crown, chest, last · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crown, king, you), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 crown | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 chest | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 chest | det |
| 4 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crown | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 crown | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 crown | det |
| 7 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | ccomp |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 waited | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 waited | aux |
| 10 | waited | wait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 crown | acl:relcl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 waited | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 years | amod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 waited | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 crown | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 crown | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 come | cc |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 last | case |
| 24 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 come | obl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 come | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 come | aux |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 said | conj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 come | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the crown | that chest | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wait | present · perfect | the crown | year | for you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come | present · perfect | you | last | for chest | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
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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