The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 59
And so she went on talk, talk, talking, until her waiting-women wondered where she got it all from.
Who acts: water, waiting women · What happens: go, talk, wonder, get · To what, where: talk
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (water, waiting women), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 talk | case |
| 6 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 talk | punct |
| 8 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 talking | punct |
| 10 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 talk | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wondered | punct |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 wondered | mark |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 women | nmod:poss |
| 14 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 women | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 waiting | punct |
| 16 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 wondered | nsubj |
| 17 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 talking | conj |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 got | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 got | nsubj |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 wondered | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 got | obj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 it | det |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 got | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | water | talk | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on talk=Location | ||||
| 2 | talk | present | water not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | talk | gerund | water not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | past | water's waiting women | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | get | past | water | talk | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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