The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 93
When she got to the courtyard she found the Prince waiting for her.
Who acts: girl, Prince · What happens: get, find, wait · To what, where: Prince
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, Prince), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 courtyard | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 courtyard | det |
| 6 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Prince | det |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 11 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 found | xcomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 waiting | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | girl | to the courtyard result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to courtyard=Result | ||||
| 2 | find | past | girl | the Prince | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent prince=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | the Prince not said here | for girl | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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