The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3, sentence 14

But while she was thus enjoying herself with the King and her sisters, the King of the Sheep was waiting impatiently for the time of her return, and when it came and went, and no Princess appeared, his anxiety became so great that he could bear it no longer.

Who acts: sister, return, Princess, anxiety · What happens: enjoy, wait, come, go, appear, become · To what, where: sister, return

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, return, Princess, anxiety), 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	_	21 waiting	cc
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 enjoying	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 enjoying	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 enjoying	aux
5	thus	thus	ADV	_	6 enjoying	advmod
6	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 waiting	advcl
7	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 enjoying	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 King	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 enjoying	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sisters	cc
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 sisters	nmod:poss
13	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 King	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 King	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 King	det
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 King	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Sheep	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Sheep	det
19	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 King	nmod
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 waiting	aux
21	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
22	impatiently	impatiently	ADV	_	21 waiting	advmod
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 time	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 time	det
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 waiting	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 return	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 return	nmod:poss
28	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 time	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 became	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 became	cc
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 came	advmod
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 came	nsubj
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 became	advcl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 went	cc
35	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 came	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 appeared	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 appeared	cc
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 Princess	det
39	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 appeared	nsubj
40	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 came	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 became	punct
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 anxiety	nmod:poss
43	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 became	nsubj
44	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 waiting	conj
45	so	so	ADV	_	46 great	advmod
46	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 became	xcomp
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 bear	mark
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 bear	nsubj
49	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 bear	aux
50	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 great	advcl
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 bear	obj
52	no	no	ADV	_	53 longer	advmod
53	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	50 bear	advmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 waiting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	enjoy	past · progressive	sister	sister		with the King and sister's sisters and the King of the Sheep; thus property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herself=Stimulus
2	wait	past · progressive			time	impatiently property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	return				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	past	return not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	appear	past	no Princess				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	become	past	King's anxiety			great property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
7	bear	could	anxiety	return		long property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
8	return		sister				nom return «communication intransitive»: 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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