The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 79

All day long the boy stood at the window, looking over the sea by which the princess must travel; but there were no signs of her, not even the tiniest white sail.

Who acts: boy, princess, signs · What happens: stand, look, travel, be, sign · To what, where: window, princess

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, princess, signs), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	obl:unmarked
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 day	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	nsubj
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 window	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 window	det
9	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 looking	punct
11	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 stood	advcl
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looking	obl
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 travel	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 princess	det
18	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 travel	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 travel	aux
20	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 looking	advcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 were	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 were	cc
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 were	expl
24	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stood	conj
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 signs	det
26	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 were	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 signs	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sail	punct
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 sail	advmod
31	even	even	ADV	_	35 sail	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sail	det
33	tiniest	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 sail	amod
34	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 sail	amod
35	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 signs	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the boy		the window	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location
2	look	gerund	the boy not said here				over the sea	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over sea=Theme
3	travel	must	the princess					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by which=Trajectory
4	be	past	no signs of princess the tiniest white sail		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sign			princess				nom sign «communication 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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