The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 16

The princess saw with delight that they would pay no heed to her, and wandered on and on, expecting every moment to see some fairies dancing round a ring, or some little brown elves peeping at her from behind a tree.

Who acts: princess, attendants, fairies, little brown elves · What happens: see, pay, wander, expect, dance, peep · To what, where: heed, princess, fairies, ring, tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, attendants, fairies, little brown elves), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 delight	case
5	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 pay	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pay	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 pay	aux
9	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saw	ccomp
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 heed	det
11	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pay	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pay	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wandered	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wandered	cc
16	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
17	on	on	ADV	_	16 wandered	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 on	cc
19	on	on	ADV	_	17 on	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 expecting	punct
21	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 wandered	advcl
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 moment	det
23	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 expecting	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 expecting	advcl
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 fairies	det
27	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 see	obj
28	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 fairies	acl
29	round	round	ADP	_	31 ring	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 ring	det
31	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dancing	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 peeping	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 peeping	cc
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	37 elves	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 elves	amod
36	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 elves	amod
37	elves	elf	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 peeping	nsubj
38	peeping	peep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 wandered	advcl
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 her	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 peeping	obj
41	from	from	ADP	_	44 tree	case
42	behind	behind	ADP	_	44 tree	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 tree	det
44	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 peeping	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the princess					with delight	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	pay	would	attendants = attendant	no heed	princess				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset
3	wander	past	the princess not said here						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	expect	gerund	the princess not said here				moment		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	see	to-infinitive	the princess not said here	some fairies					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fairy=Stimulus
6	dance	gerund	some fairies not said here			a ring			vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme round ring=Trajectory
7	peep	gerund	some little brown elves	princess		a tree			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent her=Theme

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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