The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 15
With this the bridal pair had to be content, and be as patient as they could till the king’s arrival.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, arrive
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 5 pair | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 pair | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pair | det |
| 4 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pair | amod |
| 5 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 content | obl |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 content | aux |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 content | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 content | cop |
| 9 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 patient | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 patient | cc |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 patient | cop |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 patient | advmod |
| 14 | patient | patient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 content | parataxis |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 could | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 could | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 patient | advcl |
| 18 | till | till | ADP | _ | 22 arrival | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 king | case |
| 22 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 could | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 content | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | with the bridal pair; content property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | patient property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | arrive | the king | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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