The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 91

So they waited then, and it was not long before the earth quaked even more terribly than the first time.

Who acts: country, lion, earth · What happens: wait, not be, quake

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country, lion, earth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:857): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 waited	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 waited	nsubj
3	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 waited	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 long	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 long	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 long	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 long	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 long	advmod
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 waited	conj
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 quaked	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 earth	det
13	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 quaked	nsubj
14	quaked	quake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 long	advcl
15	even	even	ADV	_	16 more	advmod
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 terribly	advmod
17	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	14 quaked	advmod
18	than	than	ADP	_	21 time	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 time	det
20	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 time	amod
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 terribly	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	country	then		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is	past	lion		long property	tree rules
3	quake	past	the earth		terribly property	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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