English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 63
Meanwhile the giant's daughter was waiting and waiting for him to come back.
Who acts: daughter, giant · What happens: wait, come back
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, giant), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 7 waiting | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 giant | det |
| 3 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 giant | case |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waiting | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 waiting | aux |
| 7 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 waiting | cc |
| 9 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 waiting | conj |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 come | mark |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 come | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 come | mark |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 waiting | advcl |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 come | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · progressive | the giant's daughter | meanwhile property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wait | gerund | the giant's daughter not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come back | to-infinitive | giant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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