The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 114

‘Look!’ said she; ‘this little box has been lying here for ages, waiting for the man who could win his way through the Ice Kingdom.

Who acts: friend, little box, man · What happens: look, say, lie, wait, win · To what, where: way, Ice Kingdom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (friend, little box, man), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 lying	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 lying	punct
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 box	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 box	amod
11	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lying	nsubj
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 lying	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 lying	aux
14	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 lying	advmod
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 ages	case
17	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lying	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 waiting	punct
19	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 lying	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 man	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 man	det
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 waiting	obl
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 win	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 win	aux
25	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 man	acl:relcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 way	nmod:poss
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 win	obj
28	through	through	ADP	_	31 Kingdom	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Kingdom	det
30	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Kingdom	compound
31	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 win	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	infinitive						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	friend					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lie	present · perfect · progressive	this little box		here	for ages		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wait	gerund	this little box not said here				for the man	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	win	could	the man	man's way	the Ice Kingdom			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality

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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