The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 92
Meanwhile the king waited with both hope and anxiety for his son’s return, but as time went on and nothing was heard of him, the second prince asked leave to go in search of his brother, as well as to bring the bird Grip.
Who acts: king, second prince, son · What happens: wait, go on, hear, ask, leave, go · To what, where: nothing, search, bird Grip, brother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, second prince, son), 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 | _ | 4 waited | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waited | nsubj |
| 4 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 hope | case |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 hope | det |
| 7 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waited | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 anxiety | cc |
| 9 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hope | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 return | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 return | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 son | case |
| 14 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waited | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waited | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 heard | cc |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 24 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 heard | aux:pass |
| 24 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 went | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 heard | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 asked | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 prince | det |
| 29 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 prince | amod |
| 30 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 asked | nsubj |
| 31 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waited | conj |
| 32 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 asked | ccomp |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 go | mark |
| 34 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 leave | xcomp |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 search | case |
| 36 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 go | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 brother | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 brother | nmod:poss |
| 39 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 search | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 bring | punct |
| 41 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 45 bring | cc |
| 42 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 41 as | fixed |
| 43 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 as | fixed |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 bring | mark |
| 45 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 waited | conj |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Grip | det |
| 47 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 Grip | compound |
| 48 | Grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 bring | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the king | with both hope and anxiety; for king's son's return; meanwhile property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go on | past | the king not said here | time | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | past · passive | nothing | of king | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the second prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | leave | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | go | to-infinitive | search of king's brother | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location | |||||
| 7 | bring | to-infinitive | the king not said here | the bird Grip | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent grip=Theme | ||||
| 8 | return | king's son | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | search | king's brother | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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