The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 49

‘I have waited, hoping that your highness’ visit here would last some time, for I proposed to celebrate the last day of your stay with this truly royal dish.’

Who acts: I, visit, highness, your · What happens: wait, hope, last, propose, celebrate, visit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, visit, highness, your), 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	_	4 waited	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 waited	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 waited	aux
4	waited	wait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hoping	punct
6	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 waited	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 last	mark
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 highness	nmod:poss
9	highness	highness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 visit	nmod:poss
10	’	's	PART	_	9 highness	case
11	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 last	nsubj
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 visit	advmod
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 last	aux
14	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hoping	ccomp
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 last	obl:unmarked
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 proposed	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 proposed	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 proposed	nsubj
20	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waited	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 celebrate	mark
22	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 proposed	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 day	det
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 day	amod
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 celebrate	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 stay	case
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 stay	nmod:poss
28	stay	stay	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 day	nmod
29	with	with	ADP	_	33 dish	case
30	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 dish	det
31	truly	truly	ADV	_	32 royal	advmod
32	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 dish	amod
33	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 celebrate	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 waited	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present · perfect	I			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hope	gerund	I not said here			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	last	would	your highness's visit	time		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
4	propose	past	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	celebrate	to-infinitive	I not said here	day	with this royal dish	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	visit		your highness			nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent
7	stay		your			nom stay «act 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 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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