The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 54

While Graciosa was waiting until the King should be ready to set out, she went down all alone through the garden into a little wood, where she sat down upon a mossy bank and began to think.

Who acts: Graciosa, King · What happens: wait, be, set out, go down, sit down, begin · To what, where: garden, mossy bank

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Graciosa, King), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 waiting	mark
2	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 waiting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waiting	aux
4	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 went	advcl
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 ready	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 ready	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 ready	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 ready	cop
10	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 waiting	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 set	mark
12	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 ready	xcomp
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 set	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 waiting	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 went	advmod
18	all	all	ADV	_	19 alone	advmod
19	alone	alone	ADV	_	16 went	advmod
20	through	through	ADP	_	22 garden	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 garden	det
22	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl
23	into	into	ADP	_	26 wood	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 wood	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 wood	amod
26	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sat	punct
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 sat	advmod
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sat	nsubj
30	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 went	parataxis
31	down	down	ADV	_	30 sat	advmod
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 bank	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 bank	det
34	mossy	mossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 bank	amod
35	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sat	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 began	cc
37	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sat	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 think	mark
39	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 began	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	wait	past · progressive	Graciosa			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	should	the King		ready property	tree rules
3	set out	to-infinitive	the King not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go down	past	Graciosa	the garden	into a little wood; alone, down property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through garden=Location
5	sit down	past	Graciosa	a mossy bank	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bank=Location
6	begin	past	Graciosa not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Graciosa not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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