The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 29
In the meantime the wicked step-mother was waiting at home for news of the girl’s death, and preparing pancakes for the funeral feast.
Who acts: wicked step mother, girl · What happens: wait, prepare, die · To what, where: meantime, pancakes
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked step mother, girl), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 waiting | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mother | det |
| 5 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mother | amod |
| 6 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mother | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 step | punct |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 waiting | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 waiting | aux |
| 10 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 waiting | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 news | case |
| 14 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 waiting | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 death | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 death | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 girl | case |
| 19 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 news | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 preparing | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 preparing | cc |
| 22 | preparing | prepare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 waiting | conj |
| 23 | pancakes | pancake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 preparing | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 feast | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 feast | det |
| 26 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 feast | compound |
| 27 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 preparing | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · progressive | the wicked step mother | the meantime | at home; for news of the girl's death | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meantime=Location | |||
| 2 | prepare | gerund | the wicked step mother not said here | pancakes | for the funeral feast | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent pancake=Product for feast=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | die | the girl | nom death «event 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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