The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 69

At the gate of the palace his nurse, old Birscha, was waiting for him eagerly.

What happens: wait · To what, where: gate

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 gate	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gate	det
3	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 waiting	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gate	nmod
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 nurse	nmod:poss
8	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 palace	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Birscha	punct
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Birscha	amod
11	Birscha	Birscha	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 nurse	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 gate	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 waiting	aux
14	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 waiting	obl
17	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	14 waiting	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 waiting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · progressive				the gate of the palace and help's nurse		for help; eagerly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at gate=Location

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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