The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 76
He was waiting for her by a fountain in the thickest part of the forest, and the ground was strewn with splendid presents which he had prepared for her to show his joy and gratitude at her coming back.
Who acts: King, ground · What happens: wait, be, prepare, show, come back, joy · To what, where: splendid presents, joy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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 (King, ground), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 waiting | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waiting | aux |
| 3 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 waiting | obl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 fountain | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fountain | det |
| 8 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waiting | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 part | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 part | det |
| 11 | thickest | thick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 part | amod |
| 12 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fountain | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 part | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 strewn | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 strewn | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ground | det |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 strewn | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 strewn | cop |
| 21 | strewn | strewn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 waiting | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 presents | case |
| 23 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 presents | amod |
| 24 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 strewn | obl |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 prepared | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 prepared | aux |
| 28 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 presents | acl:relcl |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 prepared | obl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 show | mark |
| 32 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 prepared | advcl |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 joy | nmod:poss |
| 34 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 show | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 gratitude | cc |
| 36 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 joy | conj |
| 37 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 39 coming | mark |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 coming | nmod:poss |
| 39 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 show | ccomp |
| 40 | back | back | ADV | _ | 39 coming | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · progressive | King | for Miranda; by a fountain in the thickest part of the forest | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by fountain=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the ground | with splendid presents; strewn property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | prepare | past · perfect · passive | splendid presents | for Miranda | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for she=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | show | to-infinitive | King's joy and gratitude | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent joy=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | come back | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | joy | King | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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