The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 190
The old King and his daughter waited anxiously for many weeks for the Prince’s return, but no news of him arrived.
Who acts: old King, news, Prince · What happens: wait, arrive, return
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old King, news, Prince), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 King | amod |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 waited | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 daughter | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 King | conj |
| 7 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 7 waited | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 weeks | case |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 weeks | amod |
| 11 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 waited | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 return | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Prince | det |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 return | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Prince | case |
| 16 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waited | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 arrived | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 arrived | cc |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 news | det |
| 20 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 arrived | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 news | nmod |
| 23 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 waited | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the old King and foot's daughter | week | for the Prince's return; anxiously property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | arrive | past | no news of foot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | return | the Prince | 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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