The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 119

All this time the youth was anxiously counting the minutes till he could get back, and stood with his eyes fixed on the road down which his messenger must come.

Who acts: youth, eyes · What happens: count, get back, stand, fix down, come · To what, where: eyes, road

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, eyes), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 time	det:predet
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 counting	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youth	det
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 counting	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 counting	aux
7	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	_	8 counting	advmod
8	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 minutes	det
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 counting	obj
11	till	till	SCONJ	_	14 get	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 get	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 get	aux
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 counting	advcl
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 get	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stood	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stood	cc
18	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 counting	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 eyes	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 eyes	nmod:poss
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 stood	obl
22	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 eyes	acl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 road	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 road	det
25	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fixed	obl
26	down	down	ADP	_	22 fixed	compound:prt
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 come	nsubj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 messenger	nmod:poss
29	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 come	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 come	aux
31	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 eyes	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 counting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	past · progressive	the youth			minute; time	anxiously property	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	get back	could	youth					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	stand	past	the youth not said here				with youth's eyes	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fix down	participle		youth's eyes not said here	the road			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	come	must	youth's eyes					vn escape-51.1-1 «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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