The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 89

“But where IS the princess?” said the young man once more, and again the man answered him: “She is standing under a tree, a mile away, waiting for the dragon.”

Who acts: princess, man · What happens: be, say, answer, stand, wait · To what, where: princess, lot, tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, man), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 princess	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 princess	cc
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 princess	advmod
4	IS	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 princess	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 princess	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 princess	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 more	advmod
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 said	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 answered	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 answered	cc
17	again	again	ADV	_	20 answered	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 answered	nsubj
20	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 answered	obj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 standing	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 standing	punct
24	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 standing	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 standing	aux
26	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 answered	ccomp
27	under	under	ADP	_	29 tree	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 tree	det
29	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 standing	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 mile	punct
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 mile	det
32	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tree	nmod
33	away	away	ADV	_	26 standing	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 waiting	punct
35	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 standing	parataxis
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 dragon	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 dragon	det
38	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 waiting	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 waiting	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		the princess					tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	the princess						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	answer speech: assert	past	the man		lot		again		tree rules
4	stand in a quote	present · progressive	princess			a tree a mile		away property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
5	wait in a quote	gerund						for the dragon	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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