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The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 48

Before the sky was streaked with red he was at home again, and the queen was sitting waiting till he arrived, for sleep was far from her eyes.

Who acts: king, queen, sleep · What happens: streak, be, sit, wait, arrive · To what, where: sky

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, queen, sleep), 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

markdetnsubj:passaux:passcaseamodnsubjcopcaseobladvmodpunctccdetnsubjauxconjadvclmarknsubjadvclpunctcasensubjcopadvmodcasenmod:possoblpunctrootBeforeSCONJtheDETskyNOUNwasAUXstreakedVERBwithADPredADJhePRONwasAUXatADPhomeNOUNagainADV,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETqueenNOUNwasAUXsittingVERBwaitingVERBtillSCONJhePRONarrivedVERB,PUNCTforADPsleepNOUNwasAUXfarADVfromADPherPRONeyesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BeforebeforeSCONJ_5 streakedmark
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 skydet
3skyskyNOUNNumber=Sing5 streakednsubj:pass
4wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 streakedaux:pass
5streakedstreakVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
6withwithADP_11 homecase
7redredADJDegree=Pos11 homeamod
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 homensubj
9wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 homecop
10atatADP_11 homecase
11homehomeNOUNNumber=Sing5 streakedobl
12againagainADV_5 streakedadvmod
13,,PUNCT_18 sittingpunct
14andandCCONJ_18 sittingcc
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 queendet
16queenqueenNOUNNumber=Sing18 sittingnsubj
17wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 sittingaux
18sittingsitVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part5 streakedconj
19waitingwaitVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part18 sittingadvcl
20tilltillSCONJ_22 arrivedmark
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 arrivednsubj
22arrivedarriveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 waitingadvcl
23,,PUNCT_30 eyespunct
24forforADP_30 eyescase
25sleepsleepNOUNNumber=Sing30 eyesnsubj
26wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 eyescop
27farfarADVDegree=Pos30 eyesadvmod
28fromfromADP_30 eyescase
29herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 eyesnmod:poss
30eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur22 arrivedobl
31..PUNCT_5 streakedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1streakpast · passivethe skyagainvn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2ispastkingwith red hometree rules
3sitpast · progressivethe queenvn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4waitgerundthe queen not said herevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5arrivepastkingvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6ispastsleepfor queen's eyes; far propertytree 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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