The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 28
He got up then and dressed himself, while the breakfast stood waiting for him.
Who acts: Hans, breakfast · What happens: get up, dress, stand, wait · To what, where: Hans
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, breakfast), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 got | compound:prt |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 got | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 dressed | cc |
| 6 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 dressed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 stood | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 breakfast | det |
| 11 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dressed | conj |
| 13 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 stood | xcomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 waiting | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | Hans | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | dress | past | Hans not said here | Hans | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | the breakfast | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | wait | gerund | the breakfast not said here | for Hans | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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