The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 99
When they had waited so long, they could surely wait a single day more.
Who acts: king · What happens: wait
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 waited | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waited | aux |
| 4 | waited | wait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 wait | advcl |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 long | advmod |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 waited | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 waited | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wait | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 wait | aux |
| 10 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 11 wait | advmod |
| 11 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 13 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 day | amod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wait | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 wait | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · perfect | king | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wait | could | king | day | surely 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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