The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 92

Meanwhile the King was waiting in a splendid room with diamond walls, so clear that he could see the Fairy and Turritella as they stood whispering together, and he was very much puzzled.

Who acts: King, walls · What happens: wait, see, stand, whisper, puzzle · To what, where: splendid room, Fairy

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, walls), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	5 waiting	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 waiting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 waiting	aux
5	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 room	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 room	det
8	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 room	amod
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waiting	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 walls	case
11	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walls	compound
12	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 room	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 clear	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 clear	advmod
15	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 waiting	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 see	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 see	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 clear	csubj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Fairy	det
21	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Turritella	cc
23	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Fairy	conj
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 stood	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 stood	nsubj
26	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 see	advcl
27	whispering	whisper	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 stood	xcomp
28	together	together	ADV	_	27 whispering	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 puzzled	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 puzzled	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 puzzled	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 puzzled	aux:pass
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 much	advmod
34	much	much	ADV	_	35 puzzled	advmod
35	puzzled	puzzle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 stood	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 waiting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	past · progressive	the King		a splendid room with diamond walls	meanwhile property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location
2	see	could	King	the Fairy and Turritella			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fairy=Stimulus
3	stand	past	walls = wall				vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	whisper speech: assert	gerund	walls = wall not said here			together property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	puzzle	past · passive		Fairy			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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