--- title: After waiting and waiting till quite a long time had passed, he said… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: After waiting and waiting till quite a long time had passed, he said to himself, with a grin, ‘Well, they are not in much hurry to be married,’ and waited again. Who acts: prince, long time, men. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2, with its dependency t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/10/127/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Grateful Prince, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/10/) / 127 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 127 After waiting and waiting till quite a long time had passed, he said to himself, with a grin, ‘Well, they are not in much hurry to be married,’ and waited again. **Who acts:** prince, long time, men · **What happens:** wait, pass, say, not be, marry · **To what, where:** prince, grin, much hurry · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (prince, long time, men), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:10:127 # text = After waiting and waiting till quite a long time had passed, he said to himself, with a grin, ‘Well, they are not in much hurry to be married,’ and waited again. 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 5 till till SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 6 quite quite DET PDT PronType=Ind 9 det:predet _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 grin grin NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 22 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Well well INTJ UH _ 30 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 hurry hurry NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 acl:relcl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 married marry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 38 again again ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | gerund | prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **wait** | gerund | prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **pass** | past · perfect | quite long time | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | prince | | prince | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | | 5 | **not** **is** | present | men *= man* | a grin *not said here* | | much hurry | | | tree rules | | 6 | **marry** | to-infinitive · passive | prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» | | 7 | **wait** | past | prince *not said here* | | | | again | | vn exist-47.1 «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:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/10/126/) - next →: [sentence 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/10/128/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Prince, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/10/)