The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 87

While he was waiting in the hall, the landlady came up for a gossip, and after a few remarks about the weather and the vineyards she asked him how he liked his new daughter-in-law, and whether he had been surprised at the marriage.

Who acts: father, landlady · What happens: wait, come up, ask, like, surprise · To what, where: hall, father, new daughter, marriage

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, landlady), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 waiting	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 waiting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waiting	aux
4	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 came	advcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hall	det
7	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waiting	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 waiting	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 landlady	det
10	landlady	landlady	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	up	up	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 gossip	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 gossip	det
15	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 asked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 asked	cc
18	after	after	ADP	_	21 remarks	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 remarks	det
20	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 remarks	amod
21	remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 asked	obl
22	about	about	ADP	_	24 weather	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 weather	det
24	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 remarks	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 vineyards	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 vineyards	det
27	vineyards	vineyard	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 weather	conj
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 asked	nsubj
29	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	parataxis
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 asked	iobj
31	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 liked	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 liked	nsubj
33	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 asked	advcl
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 daughter	nmod:poss
35	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 daughter	amod
36	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 liked	obj
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 law	punct
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 law	case
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 in	punct
40	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 daughter	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 surprised	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 surprised	cc
43	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	47 surprised	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 surprised	nsubj:pass
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 surprised	aux
46	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 surprised	aux:pass
47	surprised	surprise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 came	conj
48	at	at	ADP	_	50 marriage	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 marriage	det
50	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 surprised	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · progressive	father			the hall			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hall=Location
2	come up	past	the landlady					for a gossip	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	landlady		father		after a few remarks about the weather and the vineyards		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	like	past	father	father's new daughter and law					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot daughter=Theme
5	surprise	past · perfect · passive		father		the marriage			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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