The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 35
The Master-maid sat by the sea-shore for a long, long time, waiting for the Prince, but no Prince came.
Who acts: Master maid, Prince · What happens: sit, wait, come
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master maid, Prince), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maid | det |
| 2 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 maid | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Master | punct |
| 4 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 shore | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shore | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shore | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 sea | punct |
| 10 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 time | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 long | punct |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 waiting | punct |
| 18 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sat | advcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 Prince | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Prince | det |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 waiting | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 came | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 came | cc |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 Prince | det |
| 25 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 came | nsubj |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the Master maid | time | by the sea shore | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by shore=Location | |||
| 2 | wait | gerund | the Master maid not said here | for the Prince | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | no Prince | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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