The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 43

For five days he awaited the reply, and hardly slept or ate, but was as cross as could be all the time.

Who acts: king · What happens: await, sleep, eat, be · To what, where: reply, time

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 awaited	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 awaited	nsubj
5	awaited	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reply	det
7	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 awaited	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 slept	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 slept	cc
10	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	11 slept	advmod
11	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 awaited	parataxis
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 ate	cc
13	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 slept	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cross	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 cross	cc
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 cross	cop
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 cross	advmod
18	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 awaited	parataxis
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 time	mark
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 time	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 time	cop
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 time	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cross	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 awaited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	await	past	king	the reply	day		tree rules
2	sleep	past				hardly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	past					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past				cross property	tree rules
5	is a	could		all time			tree rules

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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