English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 9

The queen of the fairies, wishing to see the little fellow, came in at the window while the mother was sitting up in the bed admiring him.

Who acts: queen, mother · What happens: wish, see, come in, sit up, admire · To what, where: little fellow, window, bed, Merlin

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, mother), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 fairies	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fairies	det
5	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 queen	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wishing	punct
7	wishing	wish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 queen	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wishing	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fellow	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fellow	amod
12	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 see	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 queen	punct
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	in	in	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 window	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 window	det
18	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 sitting	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mother	det
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sitting	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sitting	aux
23	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 came	advcl
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 sitting	compound:prt
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 bed	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bed	det
27	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sitting	obl
28	admiring	admire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 sitting	advcl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 admiring	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wish	gerund	the queen of the fairies not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	the queen of the fairies not said here	the little fellow		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fellow=Stimulus
3	come in	past	the queen of the fairies		the window	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at window=Location
4	sit up	past · progressive	the mother		the bed	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
5	admire	gerund	the mother not said here	Merlin		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/28/9/