Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 61
After waiting half an hour the prince became impatient, and rose up and walked about.
Who acts: prince · What happens: wait, become, rise up, walk
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 waiting | mark |
| 2 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 became | advcl |
| 3 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 5 hour | det:predet |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hour | det |
| 5 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waiting | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 became | nsubj |
| 8 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | impatient | impatient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 became | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rose | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rose | cc |
| 12 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 became | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 rose | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 walked | cc |
| 15 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rose | conj |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 walked | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | the prince not said here | hour | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | past | the prince | impatient property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | rise up | past | the prince not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | walk | past | the prince not said here | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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