The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 79
And he waited a month and was very kind and pleasant to his daughter and her husband.
Who acts: Mark · What happens: wait, be
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mark), 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 | _ | 3 waited | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 month | det |
| 5 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 kind | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 kind | cop |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 kind | advmod |
| 9 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 waited | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pleasant | cc |
| 11 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 kind | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 daughter | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kind | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 husband | cc |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 husband | nmod:poss |
| 17 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 daughter | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | Mark | month | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Mark not said here | to Mark's daughter and daughter's husband; kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Mark not said here | tree rules |
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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