The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 16

Whilst she went to fetch it the King’s son rode off, and the servant who had waited to tighten his saddle-girths was alone when the witch returned.

Who acts: woman, son, servant, witch · What happens: go, fetch, ride off, wait, tighten, be · To what, where: cup, saddle girths

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, son, servant, witch), 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	Whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fetch	mark
5	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fetch	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 son	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 King	case
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rode	nsubj
11	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fetch	advcl
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 rode	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 was	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 was	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 servant	det
16	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 was	nsubj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 waited	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 waited	aux
19	waited	wait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 servant	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 tighten	mark
21	tighten	tighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 waited	advcl
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 girths	nmod:poss
23	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 girths	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 saddle	punct
25	girths	girth	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 tighten	obj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 returned	cop
27	alone	alone	ADV	_	26 was	advmod
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 returned	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 witch	det
30	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 returned	nsubj
31	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	woman			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fetch	to-infinitive	woman not said here	cup		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	ride off	past	the King's son			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	wait	past · perfect	the servant			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tighten	to-infinitive	the servant not said here	son's saddle girths		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent girth=Patient
6	is	past	the witch		return property	tree rules

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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