The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 60

He went down into the great hall where she was awaiting him, and they had much to tell each other but little time to tell it in, for the king her father, and the princes who were visiting him, and all the people of the kingdom were still in their places expecting her return.

Who acts: father, princess, fairies, princes, people, places · What happens: go down, await, have, tell, tell in, visit · To what, where: great hall, father, each, hall, places, return · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, princess, fairies, princes), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 hall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hall	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hall	amod
7	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 awaiting	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 awaiting	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 awaiting	aux
11	awaiting	await	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 hall	acl:relcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 awaiting	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
17	much	much	ADV	_	16 had	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 tell	mark
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	xcomp
20	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	19 tell	obj
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 each	fixed
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 tell	cc
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 time	amod
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tell	obl:unmarked
25	to	to	PART	_	26 tell	mark
26	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 tell	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tell	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	26 tell	compound:prt
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 king	punct
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 king	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 king	det
32	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tell	obl
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 father	nmod:poss
34	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 king	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 visiting	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 visiting	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 princes	det
38	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 visiting	nsubj
39	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 visiting	nsubj
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 visiting	aux
41	visiting	visit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 visiting	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 places	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 places	cc
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	47 people	det:predet
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 people	det
47	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 places	nsubj
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 kingdom	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 kingdom	det
50	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 people	nmod
51	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 places	cop
52	still	still	ADV	_	55 places	advmod
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 places	case
54	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 places	nmod:poss
55	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	obl
56	expecting	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	55 places	acl
57	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 return	nmod:poss
58	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 expecting	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	father			the great hall		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	await	past · progressive	princess	father					tree rules
3	have	past	fairies = fairy						tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	fairies = fairy not said here	each					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Recipient
5	tell in speech: assert	to-infinitive	fairies = fairy not said here		hall		time	for the king princess's father	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
6	visit	past · progressive	the princes	father					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
7	is	past	all people of the kingdom			fairies's places	still		tree rules
8	expect	gerund	fairies's places not said here	princess's return					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent return=Theme
9	return		princess						nom return «communication 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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