The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 17

But, as the enchanter had vanished, he did not waste any more time in thinking, but went to seek the Princess, who very soon consented to marry him.

Who acts: enchanter, more time · What happens: vanish, not waste, think, go, seek, consent · To what, where: Princess, enchanter

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enchanter, more time), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 waste	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 But	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 vanished	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 enchanter	det
5	enchanter	enchanter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 vanished	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 vanished	aux
7	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 waste	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 vanished	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 waste	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 waste	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 waste	advmod
12	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	any	any	ADV	_	14 more	advmod
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 time	amod
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 waste	obj
16	in	in	SCONJ	_	17 thinking	mark
17	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 time	acl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 went	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 went	cc
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 waste	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 seek	mark
22	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 went	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Princess	det
24	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 seek	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 consented	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 consented	nsubj:pass
27	very	very	ADV	_	29 consented	advmod
28	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 consented	advmod
29	consented	consent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 Princess	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 marry	mark
31	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 consented	xcomp
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 marry	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 waste	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past · perfect	the enchanter				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not waste	past · do-support	enchanter		time		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	gerund	more time not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	past	enchanter not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	seek	to-infinitive	enchanter not said here	the Princess			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme
6	consent	participle · passive		the Princess		soon property	tree rules
7	marry	to-infinitive		enchanter			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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