The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 34
So what with one thing and another she was an immense time trotting to and fro, and all the while she now and again bade the Prince have patience.
Who acts: woman, immense time · What happens: be, trot, fro, have · To what, where: immense time, patience
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (woman, immense time), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 what | advmod |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 thing | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 thing | nummod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 what | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 time | cc |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 time | det |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 time | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 time | cop |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thing | conj |
| 13 | trotting | trot | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 time | acl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 trotting | fixed |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fro | cc |
| 16 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 trotting | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 have | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 have | cc |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 have | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 have | det |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 29 have | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 have | nsubj |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 have | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bade | cc |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 bade | advmod |
| 26 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 now | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Prince | det |
| 28 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 have | nsubj |
| 29 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | parataxis |
| 30 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 have | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | woman | another immense time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trot | gerund | another immense time not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fro | infinitive | another immense time not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | present | woman | patience | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient |
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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