The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 75
All that day she sat on a well which was near the gate, waiting, waiting, but the king’s son never came.
Who acts: daughter, well, son · What happens: sit, be, wait, not come · To what, where: well, gate
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, well, son), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 day | det:predet |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 well | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 well | det |
| 8 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 gate | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gate | cop |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 13 gate | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gate | det |
| 13 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 well | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 waiting | punct |
| 15 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sat | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 waiting | punct |
| 17 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 waiting | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 came | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 king | case |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | nsubj |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 came | advmod |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | daughter | a well | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on well=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | a well | the gate | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | daughter not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | wait | gerund | daughter not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not come | past | the king's son | vn escape-51.1-1 «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 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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