The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 21

And the witch herself assumed the form of the Queen, and decked herself out in the royal robes, and sat among the Court ladies, awaiting the King’s return.

Who acts: witch, King · What happens: assume, deck out, sit, await, form, return · To what, where: form, witch, return, Queen

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, King), 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	_	5 assumed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 assumed	nsubj
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 assumed	nsubj
5	assumed	assume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 form	det
7	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 assumed	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Queen	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Queen	det
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 form	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 decked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 decked	cc
13	decked	deck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 assumed	conj
14	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 decked	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	13 decked	compound:prt
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 robes	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 robes	det
18	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 robes	amod
19	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 decked	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sat	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sat	cc
22	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 assumed	conj
23	among	among	ADP	_	26 ladies	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ladies	det
25	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ladies	compound
26	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sat	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 awaiting	punct
28	awaiting	await	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 sat	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 King	det
30	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 return	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 King	case
32	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 awaiting	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 assumed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	assume	past	the witch	the form of the Queen		vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme
2	deck out	past	the witch not said here	witch	in the royal robes	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent herself=Destination in robe=Theme
3	sit	past	the witch not said here		among the Court ladies	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among lady=Location
4	await	gerund	the witch not said here	the King's return		tree rules
5	form			the Queen		nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient
6	return		the King			nom return «communication intransitive»: 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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