The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 62

Here the princess had been sitting every day since the morning that her husband had left her, weeping bitter tears, and listening for his footsteps.

Who acts: princess · What happens: sit, leave, weep, listen · To what, where: husband, bitter tears

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 princess	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 sitting	aux
6	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl:unmarked
9	since	since	ADP	_	11 morning	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 morning	det
11	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 left	mark
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 husband	nmod:poss
14	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 left	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 left	aux
16	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sitting	advcl
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 left	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 weeping	punct
19	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sitting	conj
20	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tears	amod
21	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 weeping	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 listening	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 listening	cc
24	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sitting	conj
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 footsteps	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 footsteps	nmod:poss
27	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 listening	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · perfect · progressive	the princess		day; morning		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	leave	past · perfect · passive		princess's husband			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme she=Attribute
3	weep	gerund	the princess not said here	bitter tears			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme
4	listen	gerund	the princess not said here			for husband's footsteps	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for footstep=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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