The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 102
All the ladies-in-waiting were standing round, each with their attendants, and the lords-in-waiting with their attendants.
Who acts: ladies, lords · What happens: wait, stand · To what, where: each
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies, lords), 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 ladies | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ladies | det |
| 3 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 standing | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 waiting | punct |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 waiting | mark |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 in | punct |
| 7 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 ladies | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 standing | aux |
| 9 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | round | round | ADV | _ | 9 standing | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 each | punct |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 standing | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 attendants | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 15 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 each | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 waiting | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 waiting | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lords | det |
| 19 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 waiting | nsubj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 waiting | punct |
| 21 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 23 waiting | mark |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 in | punct |
| 23 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 standing | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 attendants | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 26 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 waiting | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | all ladies not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | past · progressive | all ladies | each | round property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | wait | gerund | the lords | with ladies's attendants | 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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