The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 11

But all in vain, and for seven years the Princess had sat now and waited for some one to scale the Glass Mountain.

Who acts: Princess · What happens: sit, wait · To what, where: Glass Mountain

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 vain	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 vain	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 vain	case
4	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sat	cc
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
8	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sat	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 sat	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sat	aux
13	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 vain	parataxis
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 sat	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 waited	cc
16	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sat	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 one	case
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 waited	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 scale	mark
21	scale	scale	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 waited	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Mountain	det
23	Glass	Glass	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Mountain	compound
24	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 waited	obl:unmarked
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 vain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · perfect	the Princess				now; year		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wait	past	the Princess not said here	the Glass Mountain				for some one	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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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