The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 63

He waited motionless for some time, hoping no doubt for a favourable reply, but as I continued silent he angrily declared that he would find means to punish my pride, and therewith he left the room in a rage.

Who acts: door, I, my · What happens: wait, hope, continue, declare, find, mean · To what, where: doubt, pride, room, rage

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, I, my), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waited	nsubj
2	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	motionless	motionless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 waited	xcomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waited	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hoping	punct
8	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 waited	advcl
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 doubt	det
10	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hoping	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 reply	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 reply	det
13	favourable	favourable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 reply	amod
14	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hoping	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 declared	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 declared	cc
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 continued	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 continued	nsubj
19	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 declared	advcl
20	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 continued	xcomp
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 declared	nsubj
22	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	23 declared	advmod
23	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waited	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 find	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 find	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 find	aux
27	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 means	nsubj
28	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 declared	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 punish	mark
30	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 means	xcomp
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 pride	nmod:poss
32	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 punish	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 left	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 left	cc
35	therewith	therewith	ADV	_	37 left	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 left	nsubj
37	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waited	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 room	det
39	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 left	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 rage	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 rage	det
42	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 left	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	door			time	motionless property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hope	gerund	door not said here	no doubt			for a favourable reply	tree rules
3	continue	past	I				silent property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	declare speech: other	past	door				angrily property	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	find	would	door					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	mean	present						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	punish not said to happen	to-infinitive		my pride				vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pride=Patient
8	leave	past	door	the room	a rage		therewith property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent room=Theme in rage=Location
9	pride		my					nom pride «feeling transitive»: 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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