The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 5

So they spent another happy evening, but he warned her that whenever she began to tire of him, or ceased to have faith in him, they would be parted for ever, and he’d be obliged to marry the witch’s daughter.

Who acts: doors, husband, princess · What happens: spend, warn, begin, tire, cease, have · To what, where: princess, faith, doors, daughter

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doors, husband, princess), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 spent	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spent	nsubj
3	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 evening	det
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 evening	amod
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spent	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 warned	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 warned	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 warned	nsubj
10	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spent	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 warned	obj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 began	mark
13	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 began	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 warned	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 tire	mark
17	tire	tire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tire	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ceased	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 ceased	cc
22	ceased	cease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 spent	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 have	mark
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 ceased	xcomp
25	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 have	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 parted	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 parted	nsubj:pass
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 parted	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 parted	aux:pass
32	parted	part	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 spent	conj
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 ever	case
34	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 parted	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ’d	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 ’d	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 ’d	nsubj
38	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spent	conj
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 obliged	aux:pass
40	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 ’d	ccomp
41	to	to	PART	_	42 marry	mark
42	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 obliged	xcomp
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 witch	det
44	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 daughter	nmod:poss
45	’s	's	PART	_	44 witch	case
46	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 marry	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	doors = door			evening		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	warn speech: warn	past	husband		princess			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	begin	past	princess				whenever property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	tire	to-infinitive	princess not said here				of husband	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	cease	participle	doors = door not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	have	to-infinitive	doors = door not said here	faith			in husband	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Patient
7	part	would · passive		doors = door				vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
8	have	past	husband					tree rules
9	oblige	infinitive · passive	husband not said here					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result
10	marry	to-infinitive	husband not said here	the witch's daughter				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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