The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 15

So they sat outside, waiting and wondering; and at last all grew still and quiet, and remained so for such a long time that they determined to enter and see if all was well.

Who acts: pupils, all · What happens: sit, wait, wonder, grow, remain, determine · To what, where: last, long time

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pupils, all), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	outside	outside	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 waiting	punct
6	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sat	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wondering	cc
8	wondering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 waiting	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 grew	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 grew	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 grew	obl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 grew	advmod
14	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
15	still	still	ADV	_	14 grew	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 quiet	cc
17	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 grew	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 remained	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 remained	cc
20	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
21	so	so	ADV	_	20 remained	advmod
22	for	for	ADP	_	26 time	case
23	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	26 time	det:predet
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 time	det
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 time	amod
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 remained	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 determined	obj
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 determined	nsubj
29	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 time	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 enter	mark
31	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 determined	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 see	cc
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 enter	conj
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 well	mark
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 well	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 well	cop
37	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 see	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	pupils = pupil				outside property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wait	gerund	pupils = pupil not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wonder speech: ask	gerund	pupils = pupil not said here					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	grow	past	pupils = pupil not said here		last	still	quiet property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
5	remain	past	pupils = pupil not said here			time		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	determine	past	pupils = pupil	such long time				tree rules
7	enter	to-infinitive	pupils = pupil not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	see	infinitive	pupils = pupil not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	is a condition, not said to happen	past	all				well property	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 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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