The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 127
After waiting and waiting till quite a long time had passed, he said to himself, with a grin, ‘Well, they are not in much hurry to be married,’ and waited again.
Who acts: prince, long time, men · What happens: wait, pass, say, not be, marry · To what, where: prince, grin, much hurry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (prince, long time, men), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 waiting | mark |
| 2 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | advcl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 waiting | cc |
| 4 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 waiting | conj |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 passed | mark |
| 6 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 time | det:predet |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 passed | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 passed | aux |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 waiting | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 waiting | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 himself | case |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 said | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 grin | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 grin | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 grin | det |
| 20 | grin | grin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hurry | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 hurry | punct |
| 23 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 30 hurry | discourse |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Well | punct |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 hurry | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 hurry | cop |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 hurry | advmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 hurry | case |
| 29 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 hurry | amod |
| 30 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grin | acl:relcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 married | mark |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 married | aux:pass |
| 33 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 hurry | acl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 grin | punct |
| 35 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 grin | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 waited | cc |
| 37 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | conj |
| 38 | again | again | ADV | _ | 37 waited | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | prince not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wait | gerund | prince not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pass | past · perfect | quite long time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | prince | prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | not is | present | men = man | a grin not said here | much hurry | tree rules | |||
| 6 | marry | to-infinitive · passive | prince not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 7 | wait | past | prince not said here | again | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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