The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 77

And when they stood in front of the throne where the princess was sitting, then they could not think of anything to say except to repeat the last word she had spoken, and she did not much care to hear that again.

Who acts: wits, princess · What happens: stand, sit, not think, say, repeat, speak · To what, where: front, last word, that · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wits, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 stood	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 stood	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 front	case
6	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 throne	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 throne	det
9	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 front	nmod
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 sitting	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 princess	det
12	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sitting	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sitting	aux
14	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 throne	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 think	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 think	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 think	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 think	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 think	advmod
20	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stood	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 anything	case
22	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 think	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 say	mark
24	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 think	ccomp
25	except	except	ADP	_	27 repeat	mark
26	to	to	PART	_	27 repeat	mark
27	repeat	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 say	ccomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 word	det
29	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 word	amod
30	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 repeat	obj
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 spoken	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 spoken	aux
33	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 word	acl:relcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 care	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 care	cc
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 care	nsubj
37	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 care	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 much	advmod
39	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 care	amod
40	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
41	to	to	PART	_	42 hear	mark
42	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 care	csubj
43	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 hear	obj
44	again	again	ADV	_	42 hear	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	wits = wit		front of the throne			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location
2	sit	past · progressive	the princess					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not think speech: other	could	wits = wit			then	of anything	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	repeat	to-infinitive		the last word				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality
6	speak speech: other	past · perfect	princess	the last word not said here				tree rules
7	care	past · do-support	princess					tree rules
8	hear	to-infinitive		that		again		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus

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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