The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 22
In the meantime the Magician was waiting impatiently for the Prince.
Who acts: Magician · What happens: wait · To what, where: meantime
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (Magician), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waiting | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Magician | det |
| 5 | Magician | Magician | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 waiting | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 waiting | aux |
| 7 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | impatiently | impatiently | ADV | _ | 7 waiting | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 Prince | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Prince | det |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 waiting | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · progressive | the Magician | the meantime | for the Prince; impatiently property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meantime=Location |
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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