The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 4

By this time Vivien’s active impatience had subsided into passive weariness, his yawns were continual and scandalous, but nobody heeded him, he stared hopelessly at the thick black curtain which hung down straight in front of him, and could hardly believe his eyes when it presently began to slide back, and he saw before him the Black Bird.

Who acts: yawns, nobody, Vivien, thick black curtain, impatience · What happens: subside, be, heed, stare, hang down, believe · To what, where: active impatience, passive weariness, Vivien, front, eyes, Black Bird

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yawns, nobody, Vivien, thick black curtain), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 subsided	obl
4	Vivien	Vivien	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 impatience	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 Vivien	case
6	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 impatience	amod
7	impatience	impatience	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 subsided	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 subsided	aux
9	subsided	subside	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 weariness	case
11	passive	passive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 weariness	amod
12	weariness	weariness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 subsided	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 continual	punct
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 yawns	nmod:poss
15	yawns	yawn	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 continual	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 continual	cop
17	continual	continual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 weariness	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 scandalous	cc
19	scandalous	scandalous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 continual	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 heeded	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 heeded	cc
22	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 heeded	nsubj
23	heeded	heed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 subsided	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 heeded	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stared	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stared	nsubj
27	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 heeded	conj
28	hopelessly	hopelessly	ADV	_	27 stared	advmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	33 curtain	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 curtain	det
31	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 curtain	amod
32	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 curtain	amod
33	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stared	obl
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 hung	nsubj
35	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 curtain	acl:relcl
36	down	down	ADV	_	35 hung	advmod
37	straight	straight	ADV	_	39 front	advmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 front	case
39	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hung	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 front	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 believe	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 believe	cc
44	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 believe	aux
45	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	46 believe	advmod
46	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 stared	parataxis
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 eyes	nmod:poss
48	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 believe	obj
49	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	52 began	advmod
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 began	nsubj
51	presently	presently	ADV	_	52 began	advmod
52	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 believe	advcl
53	to	to	PART	_	54 slide	mark
54	slide	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 began	xcomp
55	back	back	ADV	_	54 slide	advmod
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 saw	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 saw	cc
58	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 saw	nsubj
59	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 heeded	conj
60	before	before	ADP	_	61 him	case
61	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 saw	obl
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 Bird	det
63	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	64 Bird	compound
64	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 saw	obj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 subsided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	subside	past · perfect · passive		Vivien's active impatience	passive weariness	time		tree rules
2	is	past	Vivien's yawns				continual property	tree rules
3	be		Vivien's yawns not said here					tree rules
4	heed	past	nobody	Vivien				vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	stare	past	Vivien				at the thick black curtain; hopelessly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at curtain=Theme
6	hang down	past	the thick black curtain		front of Vivien		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location
7	believe	could		Vivien's eyes			hardly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus
8	begin	past	impatience				presently property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	slide back	to-infinitive	impatience not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	see	past	Vivien	the Black Bird		before him = he		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus
11	yawn		Vivien					nom yawn «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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