The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 75

Lagree was as much surprised as displeased at the happy result of this expedition, and Fairer-than-a Fairy waited anxiously for an opportunity of meeting Prince Rainbow and telling him her adventures.

Who acts: Lagree, Fairer, heroine · What happens: be, displease, wait, tell, result, adventure · To what, where: happy result, adventures, Fairer, expedition · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lagree, Fairer, heroine), 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	Lagree	Lagree	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 surprised	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	cop
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 surprised	advmod
5	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 displeased	mark
7	displeased	displease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 surprised	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 result	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 result	det
10	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 result	amod
11	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 displeased	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 expedition	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 expedition	det
14	expedition	expedition	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 result	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 waited	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 waited	cc
17	Fairer	Fairer	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 waited	nsubj
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 Fairy	punct
19	than	than	ADP	_	22 Fairy	case
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 than	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 Fairy	det
22	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Fairer	appos
23	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	parataxis
24	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	_	23 waited	advmod
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 opportunity	case
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 opportunity	det
27	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 waited	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 meeting	case
29	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 opportunity	nmod
30	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Rainbow	compound
31	Rainbow	Rainbow	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 meeting	appos
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 telling	cc
33	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 opportunity	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 telling	iobj
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 adventures	nmod:poss
36	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 telling	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Lagree				surprised property	tree rules
2	displease	participle	Lagree not said here			the happy result of this expedition		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	wait	past	Fairer				for a opportunity of meeting; anxiously property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	gerund	Fairer not said here	heroine's adventures	Fairer			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient adventure=Topic
5	result			this expedition				nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
6	adventure		heroine					nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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