The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 63
And so they talked on till the morning, the empress listening all the while.
Who acts: beds, empress · What happens: talk, listen
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beds, empress), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 talked | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 talked | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 talked | nsubj |
| 4 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 morning | case |
| 6 | till | till | ADP | _ | 8 morning | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 morning | det |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 talked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 empress | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 empress | det |
| 11 | empress | empress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 morning | appos |
| 12 | listening | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 empress | acl |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 while | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 while | det |
| 15 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 listening | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past | beds = bed | morning | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | listen | gerund | the empress not said here | while | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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