The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 12

When the ambassador reached the city, where the King was waiting impatiently, everybody was very much annoyed with him for not bringing the Princess, and the King cried like a baby, and nobody could console him.

Who acts: ambassador, King, everybody, nobody · What happens: reach, wait, be, not bring, cry, console · To what, where: city, Princess, king

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ambassador, King, everybody, nobody), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 reached	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ambassador	det
3	ambassador	ambassador	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 cried	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 city	det
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 waiting	punct
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 waiting	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 waiting	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 waiting	aux
12	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 reached	advcl
13	impatiently	impatiently	ADV	_	12 waiting	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 annoyed	punct
15	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	19 annoyed	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 annoyed	cop
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADV	_	19 annoyed	advmod
19	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 waiting	parataxis
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 annoyed	obl
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 bringing	mark
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 bringing	advmod
24	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 annoyed	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Princess	det
26	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 bringing	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cried	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cried	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 King	det
30	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 cried	nsubj
31	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	like	like	ADP	_	34 baby	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 baby	det
34	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cried	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 console	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 console	cc
37	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	39 console	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 console	aux
39	console	console	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cried	obl
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 console	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reach	past	the ambassador	the city			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent city=Theme
2	wait	past · progressive	the King			impatiently property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	everybody			with king; annoyed property	tree rules
4	not bring	gerund	everybody not said here		the Princess		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument princess=Destination
5	cry speech: express	past	the King			like a baby	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	console	could	nobody	king			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 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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