The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 73

During the weeks that followed the prince amused himself as best he could, though he counted the minutes to the arrival of the princess, and when she did come, he at once prepared to start for the court.

Who acts: weeks, prince, princess · What happens: follow, amuse, count, come, start, arrive · To what, where: prince

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weeks, prince, princess), 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	During	during	ADP	_	3 weeks	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 weeks	det
3	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 amused	obl
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 followed	nsubj
5	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 weeks	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 amused	nsubj
8	amused	amuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 amused	obj
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 best	case
11	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 amused	obj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 could	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 best	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 counted	punct
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	17 counted	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 counted	nsubj
17	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 amused	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 minutes	det
19	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 counted	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 arrival	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 arrival	det
22	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 counted	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 princess	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 princess	det
25	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 arrival	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 come	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 come	cc
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 come	advmod
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 come	nsubj
30	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 come	aux
31	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 amused	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 prepared	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 prepared	nsubj
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 prepared	case
35	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	36 prepared	advmod
36	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 amused	parataxis
37	to	to	PART	_	38 start	mark
38	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 prepared	xcomp
39	for	for	ADP	_	41 court	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 court	det
41	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 start	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 amused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	the weeks				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	amuse	past	the prince	prince	week		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer good=Result
3	count	past	prince		minute	to the arrival of the princess	vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to arrival=Experiencer
4	come	past · do-support	princess				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	start	to-infinitive	the prince not said here			for the court	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	arrive		the princess				nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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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