The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 60

She stood the whole day long on the roof and waited; perhaps she is waiting there still.

Who acts: bride · What happens: stand, wait · To what, where: roof

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 day	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl:unmarked
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 stood	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 roof	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 roof	det
9	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 waited	cc
11	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 waiting	punct
13	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	16 waiting	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 waiting	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 waiting	aux
16	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 waited	conj
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 waiting	advmod
18	still	still	ADV	_	16 waiting	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	bride	the roof	day	long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on roof=Location
2	wait	past	bride not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wait	present · progressive	bride	there	still	perhaps property	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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