The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 186

Meanwhile the King and the Prince, who knew that their sister must have arrived, had made themselves smart, and sat expecting every minute to be summoned to greet her.

Who acts: King, sister · What happens: know, arrive, make, sit, expect, summon · To what, where: King, sister

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, sister), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	9 knew	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 knew	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Prince	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Prince	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 King	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 knew	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 arrived	mark
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sister	nmod:poss
12	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 arrived	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 arrived	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 arrived	aux
15	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 knew	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 made	aux
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 knew	parataxis
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 made	obj
20	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 made	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sat	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sat	cc
23	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 knew	parataxis
24	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 sat	advcl
25	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 minute	det
26	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 expecting	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	29 summoned	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 summoned	aux:pass
29	summoned	summon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 expecting	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 greet	mark
31	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 summoned	advcl
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 greet	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	the King and the Prince				meanwhile property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	arrive	must · perfect	King's sister					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make	past · perfect		King			smart property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product
4	sit	past						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	expect	gerund				minute		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	summon	to-infinitive · passive						vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»
7	greet speech: greet	to-infinitive			sister			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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