The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 49

As soon as they were cooked the old dame took a pair of scales and a morsel of bread from the cupboard, and was just about to divide it when Prince Vivien, who really could wait no longer, seized the whole piece and ate it up, saying in his turn, ‘Patience.’

Who acts: old dame, Vivien · What happens: cook, take, be, wait, seize, eat up · To what, where: peas, pair, cupboard, whole piece, piece, Patience · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old dame, Vivien), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 cooked	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 cooked	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cooked	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cooked	aux:pass
6	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 took	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dame	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dame	amod
9	dame	dame	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pair	det
12	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 scales	case
14	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pair	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 morsel	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 morsel	det
17	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 scales	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 bread	case
19	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 morsel	nmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 cupboard	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cupboard	det
22	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 divide	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 divide	cc
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 divide	cop
26	just	just	ADV	_	27 about	advmod
27	about	about	ADV	_	29 divide	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 divide	mark
29	divide	divide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 took	parataxis
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 divide	obj
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 divide	advmod
32	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Vivien	nmod:desc
33	Vivien	Vivien	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 when	appos
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 wait	punct
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 wait	nsubj
36	really	really	ADV	_	38 wait	advmod
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 wait	aux
38	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 Vivien	parataxis
39	no	no	ADV	_	40 longer	advmod
40	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	38 wait	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 seized	punct
42	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 wait	parataxis
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 piece	det
44	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 piece	amod
45	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 seized	obj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 ate	cc
47	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 seized	conj
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 ate	obj
49	up	up	ADP	_	47 ate	compound:prt
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 saying	punct
51	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 ate	advcl
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 turn	case
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 turn	nmod:poss
54	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 saying	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 Patience	punct
56	‘	'	PUNCT	_	57 Patience	punct
57	Patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 saying	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
59	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cook	past · passive		peas = pea		soon property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	take	past	the old dame	a pair of scales and a morsel of bread	the cupboard		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent pair=Theme from cupboard=Initial_Location
3	is	past				about, divide property	tree rules
4	wait	could	Vivien Prince			long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	seize	past		the whole piece			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
6	eat up	past		piece			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	say speech: assert	gerund		Patience	dame's turn		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in turn=Manner

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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